Increasing industrialization and urbanization result in emission of pollutants in the
environment including toxic heavy metals, as cadmium and lead. Among the different heavy …

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 …

This study compared the heavy metal bioaccumulation capacity in the epiphytic moss
Scorpiurum circinatum and the epiphytic lichen Pseudevernia furfuracea, exposed in bags …

The event chain leading to germination blockage in durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp.
durum Desf.) seeds exposed to the allelochemical coumarin (2 H-chromen-2-one) was …

Selenium (Se) is an essential element for humans and animals that is required for key
antioxidant reactions, but can be toxic at high concentrations. We have investigated the …

In the present work, we compared hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) localisation and the
activities/contents of antioxidant enzymes and metabolites in the leaf tissues of grapevine …

The identification of morpho-physiological traits related to drought tolerance and high yield
potential is a challenge when selecting sugar beet genotypes with greater tolerance to water …

Comparisons were made between the content of Al, Cd, Cu, Fe, Mn, Pb, Sb and Zn in thalli
of the lichen Xanthoria parietina and selected physiological processes. Assimilation …

The ability of macrolichens to accumulate high levels of potentially toxic metals has led to
their widespread use as biomonitors of metal deposition and consideration in …

Eventual protective action of calcium (Ca, 100 or 1000 μM) against cadmium (Cd, 10 or 100
μM) toxicity in common lichen Hypogymnia physodes after 24 h of exposure was studied …