Heavy metals and pesticides toxicity in agricultural soil and plants: Ecological risks and human health implications

A Alengebawy, ST Abdelkhalek, SR Qureshi, MQ Wang - Toxics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Environmental problems have always received immense attention from scientists. Toxicants
pollution is a critical environmental concern that has posed serious threats to human health …

Microbial interventions in bioremediation of heavy metal contaminants in agroecosystem

V Pande, SC Pandey, D Sati, P Bhatt… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Soil naturally comprises heavy metals but due to the rapid industrialization and
anthropogenic events such as uncontrolled use of agrochemicals their concentration is …

Cadmium toxicity in plants: Recent progress on morpho-physiological effects and remediation strategies

U Zulfiqar, A Ayub, S Hussain, EA Waraich… - Journal of soil science …, 2022 - Springer
Cadmium (Cd) is one of the non-essential, highly toxic environmental pollutants worldwide
causing serious environmental and agricultural problems. Elevated Cd doses are …

Utilization of legume-nodule bacterial symbiosis in phytoremediation of heavy metal-contaminated soils

ME Jach, E Sajnaga, M Ziaja - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The legume–rhizobium symbiosis is one of the most beneficial interactions
with high importance in agriculture, as it delivers nitrogen to plants and soil, thereby …

Synergistic application of silver nanoparticles and indole acetic acid alleviate cadmium induced stress and improve growth of Daucus carota L

S Faiz, AA Shah, NH Naveed, A Nijabat, NA Yasin… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Cadmium (Cd) is one of the major hazardous elements that is very toxic to the health of both
human and plants. The toxicity of Cd causes plants to suffer by disabling their overall …

Effects of sophorolipids augmentation on the plant growth and phytoremediation of heavy metal contaminated soil

V Shah, A Daverey - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Heavy metal toxicity to plants and low metal bioavailability in soil decreases the efficiency of
phytoremediation. Thus, the present study evaluates the effects of sophorolipids (SL) …

Bio-indicators in cadmium toxicity: Role of HSP27 and HSP70

ME Taghavizadeh Yazdi, MS Amiri… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are a family of proteins that are expressed by cells in reply to
stressors. The changes in concentration of HSPs could be utilized as a bio-indicator of …

Cadmium mediated phytotoxic impacts in Brassica napus: managing growth, physiological and oxidative disturbances through combined use of biochar and …

A Sabir, M Naveed, MA Bashir, A Hussain… - Journal of environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic heavy metal with unknown biological role. Interactive effect of
Enterobacter sp. MN17 and biochar was studied on the growth, physiology and antioxidant …

Oxidative stress induced by cadmium in lettuce (Lactuca sativa Linn.): Oxidative stress indicators and prediction of their genes

M Kolahi, EM Kazemi, M Yazdi… - Plant Physiology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Environmental contamination with heavy metals is of concern as plants have the ability to
absorb chemical toxicants facilitating the entry of toxic metals into the food chain. Lettuce …

Combined use of Enterobacter sp. MN17 and zeolite reverts the adverse effects of cadmium on growth, physiology and antioxidant activity of Brassica napus

Z Saeed, M Naveed, M Imran, MA Bashir, A Sattar… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The objective of the study was to evaluate role of zeolite and Enterobacter sp. MN17 on Cd
uptake, growth, physiological and biochemical responses of Brassica napus on Cd …