Chromium contamination and effect on environmental health and its remediation: A sustainable approaches

S Prasad, KK Yadav, S Kumar, N Gupta… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Chromium (Cr) is a trace element critical to human health and well-being. In the last few
decades, its contamination, especially hexavalent chromium [Cr (VI)] form in both terrestrial …

Chromium biogeochemical behaviour in soil-plant systems and remediation strategies: A critical review

M Ao, X Chen, T Deng, S Sun, Y Tang, JL Morel… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Chromium (Cr) is a toxic heavy metal that is heavily discharged into the soil environment
due to its widespread use and mining. High Cr levels may pose toxic hazards to plants …

Chromium speciation, bioavailability, uptake, toxicity and detoxification in soil-plant system: A review

M Shahid, S Shamshad, M Rafiq, S Khalid, I Bibi… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Chromium (Cr) is a potentially toxic heavy metal which does not have any essential
metabolic function in plants. Various past and recent studies highlight the biogeochemistry …

Interactions between plant hormones and heavy metals responses

L Bücker-Neto, ALS Paiva, RD Machado… - … and molecular biology, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
Heavy metals are natural non-biodegradable constituents of the Earth's crust that
accumulate and persist indefinitely in the ecosystem as a result of human activities. Since …

Adverse effect of heavy metals (As, Pb, Hg, and Cr) on health and their bioremediation strategies: a review

A Pratush, A Kumar, Z Hu - International Microbiology, 2018 - Springer
Currently, heavy metal pollution becomes a severe problem whole over the world, and these
toxic metals enter into the environment either by natural phenomena or due to extensive …

Efficacy of metallic nanoparticles in attenuating the accumulation and toxicity of chromium in plants: current knowledge and future perspectives

Z Ulhassan, I Khan, M Hussain, AR Khan, Y Hamid… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanoparticles have emerged as cutting-edge technology for the improvement of crops yield
and safe cultivation of agricultural plants, especially in peripheral areas impaired with toxic …

Chromium as an environmental pollutant: insights on induced plant toxicity

H Oliveira - Journal of Botany, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decades the increased use of chromium (Cr) in several anthropogenic activities
and consequent contamination of soil and water have become an increasing concern. Cr …

Selenium mitigates the chromium toxicity in Brassicca napus L. by ameliorating nutrients uptake, amino acids metabolism and antioxidant defense system

Z Ulhassan, RA Gill, H Huang, S Ali… - Plant Physiology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The phytotoxicity of chromium (Cr) makes it obligatory for the researchers to develop
strategies that seek to hinder its accumulation in food chains. While, protective role of …

Hydrogen sulfide alleviates chromium stress on cauliflower by restricting its uptake and enhancing antioxidative system

R Ahmad, S Ali, M Rizwan, M Dawood… - Physiologia …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The present study evaluated the physiological and biochemical mechanisms through which
exogenous sodium hydrosulfide (H2S donor) mitigates chromium (Cr) stress in cauliflower …

Chromium tolerance, bioaccumulation and localization in plants: an overview

V Sinha, K Pakshirajan, R Chaturvedi - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
In the current industrial scenario, chromium (Cr) as a metal is of great importance, but poses
a major threat to the environment. Phytoremediation provides an environmentally …