Most of the heavy metals (HMs), and metals/metalloids are released into the nature either by
natural phenomenon or anthropogenic activities. Being sessile organisms, plants are …

Environmental contamination by hazardous environmental pollutants is a widespread and
increasingly serious problem confronting society, scientists, and regulators worldwide …

Heavy metal accumulation in agricultural land causes crop production losses worldwide.
Metal homeostasis within cells is tightly regulated. However, homeostasis breakdown leads …

Metal hyperaccumulator plants accumulate and detoxify extraordinarily high concentrations
of metal ions in their shoots. Metal hyperaccumulation is a fascinating phenomenon, which …

Background Rice is the primary source of food for billions of people in developing countries,
yet the commonly consumed polished grain contains insufficient levels of the key …

The goal of biofortification is to develop plants that have an increased content of
bioavailable nutrients in their edible parts. Cereals serve as the main staple food for a large …

Nickel (Ni) is an essential nutrient for plants, but excessive amounts can be toxic. Ni
competes with iron (Fe) in vivo, raising the possibility that Ni is competitively taken up via the …

Heavy metal ions such as cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn),
molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), and zinc (Zn) are considered essential/beneficial for optimal …

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is cultivated on more land than any other crop and
produces a fifth of the calories consumed by humans. Wheat endosperm is rich in starch yet …

In the course of evolution, plants adapted to widely differing metal availabilities in soils and
therefore represent an important source of natural variation of metal homeostasis networks …