Cadmium (Cd) is a major environmental contaminant due to its widespread industrial use.
Cd contamination of soil and water is rather classical but has emerged as a recent problem …

Several anthropogenic activities including mining, modern agricultural practices, and
industrialization have long-term detrimental effect on our environment. All these factors lead …

Pollution of plants by heavy metals is a critical health issue because metals can be
transmitted to animals and humans. Heavy metal exposure induces an oxidative stress in …

Arsenic (As) contamination and its adverse consequences on rice agroecosystem are well
known. Rice has the credit to feed more than 50% of the world population but concurrently …

Arsenic (As) contamination is a global problem, and seriously threatens the ecosystems and
human health. Over decades, numerous efforts regarding the microorganism-mediated …

Heavy metal and metalloid contamination of the environment due to natural processes,
industrialization, and anthropogenic activities pose a serious problem, threatening the …

China is suffering from farmland heavy metal pollution. Different strategies have been
explored in the past decades to address the problem, mainly metal removal, substitute …

Phytobial remediation is an innovative tool that uses plants and microbes to mitigate Arsenic
(As) contamination of the environment. Recently, plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) …

Arsenic is a well-known environmental carcinogen and chronic exposure to arsenic through
drinking water has been reported to cause skin, bladder and lung cancers, with arsenic …

Arsenic (As) poses a risk to the human health in excess exposure and microbes play an
important role in the toxicity of As. Arsenic methylation mediated by microbes is a key driver …