Heavy metal exist naturally in environment, but due to human and some natural activities
they have been entered to water bodies, air and soil and have become one of the major …

The occurrence of heavy metals in soils may be beneficial or toxic to the environment. The
biota may require some of these elements considered essentials (like Fe, Zn, Cu or Mo) in …

Environmental contamination by hazardous environmental pollutants is a widespread and
increasingly serious problem confronting society, scientists, and regulators worldwide …

Plants are the target of a wide range of pollutants that vary in concentration, speciation, and
toxicity. Such pollutants mainly enter the plant system through the soil (Arshad et al. 2008) or …

The biochemical responses of the enzymatic antioxidant system of a drought-tolerant cultivar
(IACSP 94-2094) and a commercial cultivar in Brazil (IACSP 95-5000) grown under two …

Increasingly, anthropogenic perturbations of the biosphere manifest in a broad array of
global phenomena, causing widespread contamination of most ecosystems, with high …

Contamination of soils with heavy metals (HMs) is an important issue due to the
contamination of agricultural crops, which are further transferred into the food chain …

Water deficit is the major yield‐limiting factor of crop plants. The exposure of plants to this
abiotic stress can result in oxidative damage due to the overproduction of reactive oxygen …

Food is the major cadmium (Cd)-exposure pathway from agricultural soils to humans and
other living entities and must be reduced in an effective way. A plant can select beneficial …

In order to further address the modulation of signaling pathways of stress responses and
their relation to hormones, we used the ethylene-insensitive Never ripe (Nr) and the auxin …