Copper environmental toxicology, recent advances, and future outlook: a review

M Rehman, L Liu, Q Wang, MH Saleem… - … science and pollution …, 2019 - Springer
Copper (Cu) is one of the micronutrients needed by living organisms. In plants, Cu plays key
roles in chlorophyll formation, photosynthesis, respiratory electron transport chains …

Cadmium in plants: uptake, toxicity, and its interactions with selenium fertilizers

MA Ismael, AM Elyamine, MG Moussa, M Cai… - Metallomics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Cd is the third major contaminant of greatest hazard to the environment after mercury and
lead and is considered as the only metal that poses health risks to both humans and animals …

Phytoremediation strategies for soils contaminated with heavy metals: modifications and future perspectives

N Sarwar, M Imran, MR Shaheen, W Ishaque… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Presence of heavy metals in agricultural soils is of major environmental concern and a great
threat to life on the earth. A number of human health risks are associated with heavy metals …

Trace metal metabolism in plants

E Andresen, E Peiter, H Küpper - Journal of experimental botany, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Many trace metals are essential micronutrients, but also potent toxins. Due to natural and
anthropogenic causes, vastly different trace metal concentrations occur in various habitats …

[HTML][HTML] Iron homeostasis in plants and its crosstalk with copper, zinc, and manganese

S Rai, PK Singh, S Mankotia, J Swain, SB Satbhai - Plant Stress, 2021 - Elsevier
Micronutrients like copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), Iron (Fe), and Zinc (Zn) are essential for
plants, and their functions are tightly linked for vital metabolism. The normal concentration …

[HTML][HTML] Structure, function, regulation and phylogenetic relationship of ZIP family transporters of plants

TP Ajeesh Krishna, T Maharajan… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Zinc (Zn) is an essential micronutrient for plants and humans. Nearly 50% of the agriculture
soils of world are Zn-deficient. The low availability of Zn reduces the yield and quality of the …

[HTML][HTML] Agroecological responses of heavy metal pollution with special emphasis on soil health and plant performances

V Srivastava, A Sarkar, S Singh, P Singh… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
With modern day urbanization and industrialization, heavy metal (HM) contamination has
become a prime concern for today's society. The impacts of metal contamination on …

Heavy-metal-induced reactive oxygen species: phytotoxicity and physicochemical changes in plants

M Shahid, B Pourrut, C Dumat, M Nadeem… - … and Toxicology Volume …, 2014 - Springer
Environmental contamination by hazardous environmental pollutants is a widespread and
increasingly serious problem confronting society, scientists, and regulators worldwide …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of high and low levels of plant-beneficial heavy metal ions on plant growth and development

N Arif, V Yadav, S Singh, S Singh, P Ahmad… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Heavy metals (HMs) exists in the environment in both forms as essential and non-essential.
These HM ions enter in soil biota from various sources like natural and anthropogenic …

Nanotechnologies for increasing the crop use efficiency of fertilizer-micronutrients

CM Monreal, M DeRosa, SC Mallubhotla… - Biology and fertility of …, 2016 - Springer
Billions of people and many soils across the planet suffer from micronutrient (MN)
deficiencies impairing human health. In general, fertilization of deficient soils, according to …