Challenges and opportunities of biocoagulant/bioflocculant application for drinking water and wastewater treatment and its potential for sludge recovery

SB Kurniawan, SRS Abdullah, MF Imron… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The utilization of metal-based conventional coagulants/flocculants to remove suspended
solids from drinking water and wastewater is currently leading to new concerns. Alarming …

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 …

Influence of high and low levels of plant-beneficial heavy metal ions on plant growth and development

N Arif, V Yadav, S Singh, S Singh, P Ahmad… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Heavy metals (HMs) exists in the environment in both forms as essential and non-essential.
These HM ions enter in soil biota from various sources like natural and anthropogenic …

Heavy metals, occurrence and toxicity for plants: a review

PC Nagajyoti, KD Lee, TVM Sreekanth - Environmental chemistry letters, 2010 - Springer
Metal contamination issues are becoming increasingly common in India and elsewhere, with
many documented cases of metal toxicity in mining industries, foundries, smelters, coal …

Mechanisms of metal toxicity in plants

H Küpper, E Andresen - Metallomics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Metal toxicity in plants is still a global problem for the environment, agriculture and ultimately
human health. This review initially addresses the current state of the environmental …

Fe toxicity in plants: Impacts and remediation

N Zahra, MB Hafeez, K Shaukat, A Wahid… - Physiologia …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Fe is the fourth abundant element in the earth crust. Fe toxicity is not often discussed in plant
science though it causes severe morphological and physiological disorders, including …

Tolerance of iron-deficient and-toxic soil conditions in rice

A Mahender, BPM Swamy, A Anandan, J Ali - Plants, 2019 - mdpi.com
Iron (Fe) deficiency and toxicity are the most widely prevalent soil-related micronutrient
disorders in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Progress in rice cultivars with improved tolerance has …

Effect of heavy metals on plant growth: an overview

D Goyal, A Yadav, M Prasad, TB Singh… - … in agriculture: sources …, 2020 - Springer
Most of the agricultural soils around the world are contaminated with heavy metals like
cadmium, arsenic, mercury, lead, chromium, and many more. High concentration of heavy …

[PDF][PDF] Heavy metal stress in plants: a review

M Gill - Int J Adv Res, 2014 - Citeseer
Naturally plants are exposed with many adverse environmental conditions like biotic and
abiotic stress. Despite all others stresses heavy metal stress is one of great importance …

Zinc and iron agronomic biofortification of Brassicaceae microgreens

F Di Gioia, SA Petropoulos, M Ozores-Hampton… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Insufficient or suboptimal dietary intake of iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) represent a latent health
issue affecting a large proportion of the global population, particularly among young children …