Description
This book focuses on the menace of metal pollution and its impact on plants, particularly food grains, pulse and vegetable plants covering morphological, anatomical, physiological and biochemical aspects. It includes comparative studies among metal hyper-accumulators (metallophytes) and non-accumulators including exogenous hormonal alleviation in them due to metal stress. Low dose stimulation effects are also reviewed. The most significant feature of the book is its extensive coverage of genomics, metabolomics, ionomics, proteomics and transcriptomics in metal non-hyper-accumulators and hyper-accumulators. Being an edited volume, the book incorporates a variety of research perspectives, enhancing the existing knowledge about metal pollution and points to newer avenues to be researched.
Table of Contents
1. Heavy Metals in our Ecosystem
Richa Upadhyay
2. Heavy Metal Contamination in Plants: An Overview
Rashmi Mukherjee, Soumi Datta, Dwaipayan Sinha, Arun Kumar Maurya and Sambhunath Roy
3. Heavy Metal Contamination in Plants: Sources and Effects
Savita Bhardwaj, Sadaf Jan, Dhriti Sharma,Dhriti Kapoor, Rattandeep Singh and Renu Bhardwaj
4. Heavy Metal Contamination in Plants: Present and Future
Mamta Pujari, Savita Bhardwaj, Dhriti Sharma, Anju Joshi, Shivani Kotwal and Dhriti Kapoor
5. Heavy Metal Contamination in Crop Plants
Naziya Tarannum and Nivedita Chaudhary
6. Heavy Metal Perception in Plants
Dwaipayan Sinha, Arun Kumar Maurya, Shilpa Chatterjee, Priyanka De, Moumita Chetterjee and Junaid Ahmad Malik
7. Plant Response to Heavy Metals (at the Cellular Level)
Arun Kumar Maurya, Dwaipayan Sinha, Kamakshi and Suchetana Mukherjee
8. Photosynthetic Response of Plants Against Heavy Metals
Sujata Rathi, Neha Mittal and Deepak Kumar
9. A Mechanistic Overview of Heavy Metal Detoxification in Plants
Kavita Ghosal, Dwaipayan Sinha and Satyendra Pal Singh
10. Amelioration of Heavy Metal Toxicity by Natural and Synthetic Hormones
Nidhi Verma, Jitendra Kumar and Sheo Mohan Prasad
11. Heavy Metal Sequestration in Plants
Rupinderpal Kaur, Bhekam Pal Singh and Yumnam Devashree
12. Ionomics vis à vis Heavy Metals Stress and Amelioration
Rashmi Mukherjee, Mukul Barwant and Dwaipayan Sinha
13. Understanding Heavy Metal Stress in Plants Through Mineral Nutrients
Marya Khan, Ummey Aymen, Ashiq Hussain Mir, Anupam Tiwari, Sheo Mohan Prasad, Joginder Singh, Praveen C Ramamurthy, Rachana Singh, Simranjeet Singh andParul Parihar
14. Genomics (Characterization of Genes) and Molecular Aspects of Metal Tolerance and Hyperaccumulation
Aparna Pandey, Sheo Mohan Prasad and Jitendra Kumar
15. Stress-inducible Proteins and their Roles under Heavy Metal Stress
Ummey Aymen, Marya Khan, Anuradha Patel, Sanjesh Tiwari, Aman Deep Raju, Sheo Mohan Prasad, Rachana Singh and Parul Parihar
16. Metallophytes
Ovaid Akhtar, Himanshu Sharma, Ifra Zoomi, Kanhaiya Lal Chaudhary and Manoj Kumar
17. Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals
Prasann Kumar, Bhupendra Koul and Monika Sharma
