Potentially toxic elements in the environment–a review of sources, sinks, pathways and mitigation measures

R Nieder, DK Benbi - Reviews on Environmental Health, 2024 - degruyter.com
Pollution of ecosystems with potentially toxic elements (PTEs) has become a global problem
with serious consequences for public health. The PTEs are hazardous to humans owing to …

Plant growth–promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) assisted bioremediation of Heavy Metal Toxicity

R Gupta, F Khan, FM Alqahtani, M Hashem… - Applied Biochemistry …, 2024 - Springer
Due to a variety of natural and anthropogenic processes, heavy metal toxicity of soil
constitutes a substantial hazard to all living beings in the environment. The heavy metals …

Heavy metals assessment in water, soil, vegetables and their associated health risks via consumption of vegetables, District Kasur, Pakistan

I Ashraf, F Ahmad, A Sharif, AR Altaf, H Teng - SN Applied Sciences, 2021 - Springer
The consumption of contaminated vegetables has a great impact on human health. Due to
this fact, we conduct the study to estimate the heavy metals in groundwater, soil, and …

A review on practical application and potentials of phytohormone-producing plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria for inducing heavy metal tolerance in crops

F Nazli, A Mustafa, M Ahmad, A Hussain, M Jamil… - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Water scarcity and high input costs have compelled farmers to use untreated wastewater
and industrial effluents to increase profitability of their farms. Normally, these effluents …

Evaluation of potential toxic metals accumulation in wheat irrigated with wastewater

K Ahmad, K Wajid, ZI Khan, I Ugulu… - Bulletin of environmental …, 2019 - Springer
The present study was carried out to ascertain the level of various metals in wheat variety
(Chagi–4) irrigated with diverse doses of wastewater. The concentration of metals in soil …

[HTML][HTML] Allium cepa assay based comparative study of selected vegetables and the chromosomal aberrations due to heavy metal accumulation

M Sabeen, Q Mahmood, ZA Bhatti, M Irshad… - Saudi Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Irrigation of industrial effluents may end in the bioaccumulation of various toxic metals and
consequent genetic changes in contaminated food crops. To test this hypothesis and extent …

Increased health risk assessment in different vegetables grown under untreated sewerage irrigation regime due to higher heavy metals accumulation

Z Hassan, A Hassan, M Riaz, AA Khan… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Heavy metals are environmental pollutants and carcinogenic for human health if ingested. In
developing countries, including Pakistan, untreated sewerage water is one of the major …

Cephradine drug release using electrospun chitosan nanofibers incorporated with halloysite nanoclay

M Naz, M Rizwan, S Jabeen, A Ghaffar… - Zeitschrift für …, 2022 - degruyter.com
The chitosan/polyvinyl alcohol/halloysite nanoclay (CS/PVA/HNC) loaded with cephradine
drug electrospun nanofibers (NFs) were fabricated and characterized by Fourier transform …

Assessment of Pb, Cd and Hg soil contamination and its potential to cause cytotoxic and genotoxic effects in human cell lines (CaCo-2 and HaCaT)

M Sljivic Husejnovic, M Bergant, S Jankovic… - … geochemistry and health, 2018 - Springer
Soil contamination by heavy metals is a serious global environmental problem, especially
for developing countries. A large number of industrial plants, which continually pollute the …

Toxicity of Heavy Metals that Affect Germination, Development and Cell Cycle of Allium cepa L

AR da Cunha Neto, IG da Silva, JVB Calvelli… - Bulletin of …, 2023 - Springer
This study aimed to investigate the impact of heavy metals copper, cadmium, lead,
aluminum and nickel, on the growth, physiology, metabolism, and cell cycle of Allium cepa L …