Reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nitric oxide (NO) are produced in all aerobic life forms
under both physiological and adverse conditions. Unregulated ROS/NO generation causes …

Cadmium is a non-essential trace metal, which is highly toxic to nearly all living organisms.
Soil pollution causes Cd contamination of crops, thereby rendering plant products …

Accumulation and enrichment of excessive heavy metals due to industrialization and
modernization not only devastate our ecosystem, but also pose a threat to the global …

Plants are exposed to diverse abiotic stresses like drought, heat, salinity, and high-metal
concentrations at different stages of their life cycle. As protection against stress, plants …

Cadmium (Cd) is one of the main pollutants in paddy fields, and its accumulation in rice
(Oryza sativa L.) and subsequent transfer to food chain is a global environmental issue. This …

This work was designed to evaluate whether external application of nitric oxide (NO) in the
form of its donor S-nitroso-N-acetylpenicillamine (SNAP) could mitigate the deleterious …

There seems to be no report in the literature on the effect of melatonin (MT) in relieving the
detrimental effects of combined application of salt stress (SS) and iron deficiency (ID) …

Since selenium (Se) was shown to be an essential element for humans in 1957, the
biofortification of Se to crops via foliar spraying or soil fertilization has been performed for …

Cadmium (Cd) pollution renders many soils across the world unsuited or unsafe for food-or
feed-orientated agriculture. The main mechanism of Cd phytotoxicity is the induction of …

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 …