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.
Author(s): Jitendra Kumar, Shweta Gaur, Prabhat Kumar Srivastava, Rohit Kumar Mishra, Devendra Kumar Chauhan
Publisher: CRC Press/Science Publishers
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 396
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Preface
Table of Contents
1. Heavy Metals in our Ecosystem
2. Heavy Metal Contamination in Plants: An Overview
3. Heavy Metal Contamination in Plants: Sources and Effects
4. Heavy Metal Contamination in Plants: Present and Future
5. Heavy Metal Contamination in Crop Plants
6. Heavy Metal Perception in Plants
7. Plant Response to Heavy Metals (at the Cellular Level)
8. Photosynthetic Response of Plants Against Heavy Metals
9. A Mechanistic Overview of Heavy Metal Detoxification in Plants
10. Amelioration of Heavy Metal Toxicity by Natural and Synthetic Hormones
11. Heavy Metal Sequestration in Plants
12. Ionomics vis à vis Heavy Metals Stress and Amelioration
13. Understanding Heavy Metal Stress in Plants Through Mineral Nutrients
14. Genomics (Characterization of Genes) and Molecular Aspects of Metal Tolerance and Hyperaccumulation
15. Stress-inducible Proteins and their Roles under Heavy Metal Stress
16. Metallophytes
17. Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals
Index
