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Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants: Physiological and Molecular Perspectives highlights the various metal induced impacts on plants and adaptation strategies employed to avoid these stressful conditions. The volume comprise the chapters from the different areas ranging from latest biotechnological to omics approaches.
This comprehensive volume emphasizes on the recent updates about the current research on the heavy metal stress in plant biology covering different aspects related to challenges and opportunities in the concerned field. This book is an attempt to bring together researchers who have been engaged in the area of stress signaling, crosstalk and mechanisms of heavy metal stress and share their research findings. Various chapters deal with the topics ranging from sensing and signalling in plants to translational research. The book will provide a direction towards implementation of programs and practices that will enable sustainable production of crops, resilient to environmental heavy metal pollution.
Features:
The book covers the heavy metal impact on plants in detail.
Chapters cover an array of topics and issues related to heavy metal pollution and its management strategies by plants
Recent research results and some pointers to future advancements in current topic.
Contents
1. Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants: Physiological and Molecular Adaptations. 2. Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants: Impact, Signaling and Remediation Strategies. 3. Responses and Adaptation of Photosynthesis and Respiration under Heavy Metal Stress. 4. Transcription Factors Involved in Plant Responses to Heavy Metal Stress Adaptation. 5. Role of Transporters during Heavy Metals Toxicity in Plants. 6. Role for Genetically Modified Plants in Protection against Heavy Metal Toxicity. 7. Unveiling the Mechanism of Transcriptional and Epigenetic Responses in plants under Heavy Metal Stress: An Update. 8. Emerging Roles of Osmoprotectants in Heavy Metal Stress Tolerance in Plants. 9. Uptake and Transformation of Heavy Metals/Metalloids in Plants. 10. Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms of Gasotransmitters-Mediated Heavy Metal Stress Tolerance in Plants. 11. Microbial and Plant assisted Bioremediation of Heavy Metal Polluted Environments. 12. Role of Plant-associated Microbes in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal Polluted Soils. 13. Strategies to Reduce Heavy Metal Contamination in Soil-plant System. 14. Nano-BIOREM: A New Concept Towards Remedial Study. 15. Cadmium Uptake, Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants. 16. Ecotoxicological Impacts of Arsenic on Plants and its Remediation Approaches. 17. Proteomic and Genomic Approaches to Study Plant Physiological Responses under Heavy Metal Stress. 18. Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species and Antioxidant Defence Studies in Plants
