Industrialization and urbanization have posed serious threats to the environment. Excessive
release of heavy metals from industrial effluents and overuse of pesticides in modern …

In modern agriculture and globalization, the release of trace metals from manufacturing
effluents hinders crop productivity by polluting the atmosphere and degrading food quality …

This chapter proposes that whether reactive oxygen species (ROS) act as signal transducing
or damaging molecules is mainly dependent on their quality and second, on their quantity …

When seedlings of rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivar Pant-12 were raised in sand cultures
containing 80 and 160 μM Al 3+ in the medium for 5–20 days, a regular increase in Al 3+ …

In this study, the effects of exogenous mercury (HgCl2) on time-dependent changes in the
activities of antioxidant enzymes (catalase and ascorbate peroxidase), lipid peroxidation …

Crop productivity is restricted by various abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, heat, and
cold. Many efforts have been taken to decrease the inhibition of plant growth by alleviating …

Heavy metals are among the main pollutants affecting plant photosynthesis. A broad
literature screening reveals that heavy metals impair, in a type‐and dose‐dependent …

Abstract Tea [Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze] is an aluminum (Al) hyperaccumulator plant
and is commercially important due to its high content of antioxidants. Although Al induced …

In this study, the effects of cadmium (Cd) on lipid peroxidation, electrolyte leakage, protein
oxidation, ascorbate peroxidase (APX; EC 1.11. 1.11), catalase (CAT; EC 1.11. 1.6) and …

This work aimed to study the process of stress adaptation in root and leaves of different
developmental stages (apex, middle and basal regions) of Pluchea sagittalis (Lam.) Cabrera …