Cadmium accumulation in crops and the possibility of Cd entering the food chain are serious
concerns for public health. This review discusses the deleterious effects of Cd in plants and …

Plants are subjected to a wide range of abiotic stresses, such as heat, cold, drought, salinity,
flooding, and heavy metals. Generally, abiotic stresses have adverse impacts on plant …

Unprecedented bioaccumulation and biomagnification of heavy metals (HMs) in the
environment have become a dilemma for all living organisms including plants. HMs at toxic …

Cadmium (Cd), a major contaminant of concern, has been extensively reviewed and
debated for its anthropogenic global shifts. Cadmium levels in rice grains raise wide food …

Metal contamination issues are becoming increasingly common in India and elsewhere, with
many documented cases of metal toxicity in mining industries, foundries, smelters, coal …

Phytoextraction is an eco-friendly and cost-effective technique for removal of toxins,
especially heavy metals and metalloids from contaminated soils by the roots of high biomass …

Homeodomain leucine zipper (HD-ZIP) proteins are plant-specific transcription factors that
contain a homeodomain (HD) and a leucine zipper (LZ) domain. The highly conserved HD …

Plants, as sessile organisms, have limited means to cope with environmental changes.
Consequently, they have developed complex regulatory systems to ameliorate abiotic …

Little information is available on the role of glycinebetaine (GB) in chromium (Cr) tolerance
while Cr toxicity is widespread problem in crops grown on Cr-contaminated soils. In this …

Anthropogenic activities are a major source for contaminating the agricultural soil with heavy
metals, which can affect physiological and metabolic processes in plants. Among the heavy …