This title focuses on the many aspects of the interaction between plants and heavy metals. Not only it describes the effects of heavy metal toxicity on the plant cell and its organs but it also examines the mechanisms that plants adopt to scavenge heavy metals at cellular, physiological, and metabolic level. Plants and Heavy Metals also analyses Hyperaccumulator plants and shows their potential role in phytoremediation technologies in light of the recent research results.
Author(s): Giovanni DalCorso (auth.), Antonella Furini (eds.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science - Biometals
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 86
Tags: Biotechnology; Plant Biochemistry; Ecotoxicology
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants....Pages 1-25
Plant Responses to Heavy Metal Toxicity....Pages 27-53
Plants that Hyperaccumulate Heavy Metals....Pages 55-74
Phytoremediation: The Utilization of Plants to Reclaim Polluted Sites....Pages 75-86