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 …

Most of the heavy metals (HMs), and metals/metalloids are released into the nature either by
natural phenomenon or anthropogenic activities. Being sessile organisms, plants are …

The term “hyperaccumulator” describes a number of plants that belong to distantly related
families, but share the ability to grow on metalliferous soils and to accumulate extraordinarily …

Nickel even though recognized as a trace element, its metabolism is very decisive for certain
enzyme activities, maintaining proper cellular redox state and various other biochemical …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Hyperaccumulators are being intensely investigated. They are not only interesting in
scientific context due to their “strange” behavior in terms of dealing with high concentrations …

Background Plants contain relatively few cell types, each contributing a specialized role in
shaping plant function. With respect to plant nutrition, different cell types accumulate certain …

Contamination of aquatic ecosystems by various sources has become a major worry all over
the world. Pollutants can enter the human body through the food chain from aquatic and soil …

Acclimation of hyperaccumulators to heavy metal‐induced stress is crucial for
phytoremediation and was investigated using the hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens …

Phytochelatins (PCs) are enzymatically synthesized peptides known to involve in heavy
metal detoxification and accumulation, which have been measured in plants grown at high …