Chromium speciation, bioavailability, uptake, toxicity and detoxification in soil-plant system: A review

M Shahid, S Shamshad, M Rafiq, S Khalid, I Bibi… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Chromium (Cr) is a potentially toxic heavy metal which does not have any essential
metabolic function in plants. Various past and recent studies highlight the biogeochemistry …

Chromium toxicity and tolerance in plants

HP Singh, P Mahajan, S Kaur, DR Batish… - Environmental Chemistry …, 2013 - Springer
Chromium (Cr) is the second most common metal contaminant in ground water, soil, and
sediments due to its wide industrial application, hence posing a serious environmental …

Making the life of heavy metal-stressed plants a little easier

PL Gratão, A Polle, PJ Lea… - Functional plant biology, 2005 - CSIRO Publishing
The contamination of soils and water with metals has created a major environmental
problem, leading to considerable losses in plant productivity and hazardous health effects …

Interactions of lichens with heavy metals

M Bačkor, S Loppi - Biologia plantarum, 2009 - Springer
Recent developments in knowledge about the interactions between lichens and heavy
metals at different levels, from populations to cells and from ecology to molecular biology are …

Chromate tolerance and accumulation in Chlorella vulgaris L.: role of antioxidant enzymes and biochemical changes in detoxification of metals

UN Rai, NK Singh, AK Upadhyay, S Verma - Bioresource technology, 2013 - Elsevier
A concentration-dependent increase in activity of antioxidant enzymes (catalase, ascorbate
peroxidase, glutathione, superoxide dismutase) and carotenoid, MDA level have been …

A review on the use of lichens as a biomonitoring tool for environmental radioactivity

J Anderson, N Lévesque, F Caron, P Beckett… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lichens have been widely used as a biomonitoring tool to record the distribution and
concentration of airborne radioactivity and pollutants such as metals. There are limitations …

Effects of zinc and mercury on ROS-mediated oxidative stress-induced physiological impairments and antioxidant responses in the microalga Chlorella vulgaris

V Ajitha, CP Sreevidya, M Sarasan, JC Park… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
The rapid growth of industrialization and urbanization results in deterioration of freshwater
systems around the world, rescinding the ecological balance. Among many factors that lead …

[HTML][HTML] Methodological advances and future directions of microalgal bioassays for evaluation of potential toxicity in environmental samples: A review

J Lee, S Hong, SA An, JS Khim - Environment International, 2023 - Elsevier
Microalgal bioassays are widely applied to evaluate the potential toxicity of various
persistent toxic substances in environmental samples due to multiple advantages, including …

Changes in nitrate reductase activity and oxidative stress response in the moss Polytrichum commune subjected to chromium, copper and zinc phytotoxicity

SK Panda, S Choudhury - Brazilian Journal of Plant Physiology, 2005 - SciELO Brasil
The main aim of this paper was to investigate the effect of chromium (Cr), copper (Cu) and
zinc (Zn) on nitrate reductase (NR) activity and oxidative stress responses in the moss …

Kinetin alleviates chromium toxicity on growth and PS II photochemistry in Nostoc muscorum by regulating antioxidant system

S Tiwari, A Patel, SM Prasad - Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2018 - Elsevier
The present study was undertaken to evaluate the metal toxicity alleviating effects of kinetin
(KN, 10 nM) on growth, photosynthetic pigments and photochemistry of PS II in the …