Rapid industrialisation, increased rate of waste production, higher agricultural inputs,
mining, industrial waste, and contaminated irrigation water are increasing the heavy metal …

Heavy metals bring long-term hazardous consequences and pose a serious threat to all life
forms. Being non-biodegradable, they can remain in the food webs for a long period of time …

Human health/socioeconomic development is closely correlated to environmental pollution,
highlighting the need to monitor contaminants in the real environment with reliable devices …

Co-contamination of the environment with toxic chlorinated organic and heavy metal
pollutants is one of the major problems facing industrialized nations today. Heavy metals …

The rise of anthropogenic activities has resulted in the increasing release of various
contaminants into the environment, jeopardizing fragile ecosystems in the process. Heavy …

Heavy metals such as Cu and Zn are essential for normal plant growth, although elevated
concentrations of both essential and non‐essential metals can result in growth inhibition and …

We are just beginning to understand the metabolism of heavy metals and to use their
metabolic functions in biotechnology, although heavy metals comprise the major part of the …

Microbes as Potential Tool for Remediation of Heavy Metals: A Review Page 1 Volume 8(4):
364-372 (2016) - 364 J Microb Biochem Technol ISSN: 1948-5948 JMBT, an open access …

Knowledge of the origins and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) is
essential for understanding modern resistomes in the environment. The mechanisms of the …

Resistance to silver compounds as determined by bacterial plasmids and genes has been
defined by molecular genetics. Silver resistance conferred by the Salmonella plasmid …