Heat shock proteins: dynamic biomolecules to counter plant biotic and abiotic stresses

S ul Haq, A Khan, M Ali, AM Khattak, WX Gai… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Due to the present scenario of climate change, plants have to evolve strategies to survive
and perform under a plethora of biotic and abiotic stresses, which restrict plant productivity …

The uptake and bioaccumulation of heavy metals by food plants, their effects on plants nutrients, and associated health risk: a review

A Khan, S Khan, MA Khan, Z Qamar… - Environmental science and …, 2015 - Springer
Heavy metal contamination is a globally recognized environmental issue, threatening
human life very seriously. Increasing population and high demand for food resulted in …

Responses of plant proteins to heavy metal stress—a review

MK Hasan, Y Cheng, MK Kanwar, XY Chu… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Plants respond to environmental pollutants such as heavy metal (s) by triggering the
expression of genes that encode proteins involved in stress response. Toxic metal ions …

Phytohormones and polyamines regulate plant stress responses by altering GABA pathway

K Podlešáková, L Ugena, L Spíchal, K Doležal… - New biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
In plants, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) accumulates rapidly in response to environmental
stress and variations in its endogenous concentration have been shown to affect plant …

Molecular mechanism of heavy metal toxicity and tolerance in plants: central role of glutathione in detoxification of reactive oxygen species and methylglyoxal and in …

MA Hossain, P Piyatida, JAT da Silva… - Journal of botany, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Heavy metal (HM) toxicity is one of the major abiotic stresses leading to hazardous effects in
plants. A common consequence of HM toxicity is the excessive accumulation of reactive …

Cadmium absorption and transportation pathways in plants

Y Song, L Jin, X Wang - International journal of phytoremediation, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Controlling the uptake, transport, translocation, and accumulation of excessive amounts of
cadmium from polluted environments is critical for plants and, consequently, humans with …

Metabolomics 20 years on: what have we learned and what hurdles remain?

S Alseekh, AR Fernie - The Plant Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The term metabolome was coined in 1998, by analogy to genome, transcriptome and
proteome. The first research papers using the terms metabolomics, metabonomics …

The molecular mechanism of zinc and cadmium stress response in plants

YF Lin, MGM Aarts - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2012 - Springer
When plants are subjected to high metal exposure, different plant species take different
strategies in response to metal-induced stress. Largely, plants can be distinguished in four …

Plant proteome changes under abiotic stress—contribution of proteomics studies to understanding plant stress response

K Kosová, P Vítámvás, IT Prášil, J Renaut - Journal of proteomics, 2011 - Elsevier
Plant acclimation to stress is associated with profound changes in proteome composition.
Since proteins are directly involved in plant stress response, proteomics studies can …

Toxic metal accumulation, responses to exposure and mechanisms of tolerance in plants

S Clemens - Biochimie, 2006 - Elsevier
Over the past 200 years emissions of toxic heavy metals have risen tremendously and
significantly exceed those from natural sources for practically all metals. Uptake and …