Culinary spices and herbs, renowned for their flavor, aroma, and medicinal properties,
contain essential nutrients but also may pose health concerns due to heavy metal …

Copper is essential for plant growth, but in excess may cause adverse effects on plant
physiology. Harmful effects are also caused by plant exposure to salinity (NaCl) due to the …

Medicinal plants have been used for treatment of many diseases since the ancient times
with traditional knowledge being transferred from generation to generation. However, in …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

The present study focused on the heavy metal and essential element contents that were
detected in 37 different plants for making assessments to reveal possible heavy metal …

Vegetable consumption is a significant route to elevate the concentrations of potentially toxic
heavy metals to be mobilized and enter the food chain. Therefore, the purpose of this …

ABSTRACT A large proportion of the world's population relies on medicines from the herbal
sources. In this review, data about the mineral element content of medicinal and aromatic …

Traditional uses of wild edible plants in daily diets are common in Eastern Anatolia. It is well
known that more than 40 different plant species have been used as fresh vegetable, dried …

The uptake of cadmium (Cd) was analyzed for six different perennial plant species growing
in a wooded pasture of the Swiss Jura Mountains, where the soils are geogenically enriched …

Flavonoids and phenolic acids are of the most important bioactive compounds in plants
owing to the physiological and ecological significance but the contents are dependent on a …