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 …

Chromium (Cr) is one of the top seven toxic heavy metals, being ranked 21st among the
abundantly found metals in the earth's crust. A huge amount of Cr releases from various …

Chromium (Cr) is the second most common metal contaminant in ground water, soil, and
sediments due to its wide industrial application, hence posing a serious environmental …

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 …

Although carcinogenic metals have been known to disrupt a wide range of cellular
processes the precise mechanism by which they exert their carcinogenic effects is not …

Sensing environmental changes and initiating a gene expression response are important for
plants as sessile autotrophs. The ability of epigenetic status to alter rapidly and reversibly …

Occupational exposure to nickel (Ni), chromium (Cr), and arsenic (As) containing
compounds has been associated with lung cancer and other adverse health effects. Their …

The plant genome can respond rapidly and dynamically to stress in a manner that
overcomes the restrictions of a highly stable DNA sequence. Abiotic stresses such as …

Chromium (VI) is recognized as the most toxic valency of Cr, but its genotoxicity and
cytostaticity in plants is still poorly studied. In order to analyze Cr (VI) cyto-and gentotoxicity …

Glutathione (GSH) participates in plant response to heavy metals (HMs) stress, however, the
epigenetic regulating mechanisms of GSH in HMs detoxification remains unclear. In this …