Heavy metal contamination in agricultural soil: environmental pollutants affecting crop health

A Rashid, BJ Schutte, A Ulery, MK Deyholos, S Sanogo… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Heavy metals and metalloids (HMs) are environmental pollutants, most notably cadmium,
lead, arsenic, mercury, and chromium. When HMs accumulate to toxic levels in agricultural …

Phytoremediation of cadmium: physiological, biochemical, and molecular mechanisms

A Raza, M Habib, SN Kakavand, Z Zahid, N Zahra… - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most toxic metals in the environment, and has noxious effects on
plant growth and production. Cd-accumulating plants showed reduced growth and …

A diverse range of physicochemically-distinct biochars made from a combination of different feedstock tissues and pyrolysis temperatures from a biodiesel plant …

T Konaka, S Tadano, T Takahashi, S Suharsono… - Industrial Crops and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Jatropha curcas (Jatropha) is drought-resistant and produces seed oil that is suitable for
biodiesel fuel production. During cultivation, Jatropha produces a large amount of non-oil …

Integrated application of sewage sludge, earthworms and Jatropha curcas on abandoned rare-earth mine land soil

D Wu, J Feng, S Chu, DF Jacobs, X Tong, Q Zhao… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
Improving soil fertility is a critical component of abandoned rare-earth mine land (ARL)
revegetation. To study the effects of sewage sludge (SS), earthworms, and Jatropha curcas …

Untargeted Metabolomic Analysis of Leaves and Roots of Jatropha curcas Genotypes with Contrasting Levels of Phorbol Esters

DFM Neto, R Garrett, GB Domont… - Physiologia …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Phorbol esters (PE) are toxic diterpenoids accumulated in physic nut (Jatropha curcas
L.) seed tissues. Their biosynthetic pathway remains unknown, and the participation of roots …

The potential of Mikania micrantha (Chinese creeper) to hyperaccumulate heavy metals in soil contaminated by electronic waste

HM Leung, PYK Yue, SCW Sze, CK Au… - … Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
The objective of this study is to investigate the contributions of Mikania micrantha (chinese
creeper) to remediate heavy metal pollutants present in an e-waste-contaminated soil …

Use of Carbonized Fallen Leaves of Jatropha Curcas L. as a Soil Conditioner for Acidic and Undernourished Soil

T Konaka, S Yabuta, C Mazereku, Y Kawamitsu… - Agronomy, 2019 - mdpi.com
Jatropha (Jatropha curcas L.) represents a renewable bioenergy source in arid regions,
where it is used to produce not only biodiesel from the seed oil, but also various non-oil …

Regulation of the mammalian SWI/SNF family of chromatin remodeling enzymes by phosphorylation during myogenesis

T Padilla-Benavides, P Reyes-Gutierrez, AN Imbalzano - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Myogenesis is the biological process by which skeletal muscle tissue forms. Regulation of
myogenesis involves a variety of conventional, epigenetic, and epigenomic mechanisms …

Influence of Monosporascus root rot and vine decline disease on the amino acid metabolism of watermelon fruit

H Santo, S Tadano, F Inokami, T Nishioka, T Konaka… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Monosporascus root rot and vine decline (MRRVD) is a severe disease of watermelon,
melon, and other cucurbits, characterized by root necrosis and sudden wilting at the later …

Differential physiological responses and tolerance to potentially toxic elements in Primula forbesii Franch

Y Jia, X Yin, J Zhao, Y Pan, B Jiang, Q Liu… - Environmental Science and …, 2023 - Springer
Environmental pollution caused by potentially toxic elements (PTEs) has become a global
problem that endangers environmental sustainability due to industrial, agricultural, and …