Heavy metals and their general toxicity for plants
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https://doi.org/10.14719/pst.2018.5.1.355Keywords:
heavy metals, plants, toxicityAbstract
Heavy metals are important environmental pollutants, and their toxicity is a serious problem of great concern for environmental, ecological, nutritional and toxicological reasons. Metals can affected long list of physiological and biochemical processes in plants and their toxicity varies with plant species, particular metal, metal concentration and it chemical form. Throughout the world, researches have been conducted extensive investigations to determine the effects of toxic heavy metals on plants. The process is still going on and the need of intensification of the research programmes for better understanding of heavy metal toxicity is evident.
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28. Van Assche F, Clijsters H. Effects of metals on enzyme activity in plants. Plant Cell Environ.1990; 13:195–206. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.1990.tb01304.x
29. Kumar G, Singh RP, Sushila. Nitrate assimilation and biomass production in Seasamum indicum (L.) seedlings in a lead enriched environment. Wat Air Soil Poll.1993; 66:163–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00477067
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31. Chen Q, Zhang X, Liu Y, Wei J, Shen W, Shen Z, Cui J. Hemin-mediated alleviation of zinc, lead and chromium toxicity is associated with elevated photosynthesis, antioxidative capacity; suppressed metal uptake and oxidative stress in rice seedlings. Plant Growth Regul. 2017; 81:253-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10725-016-0202-y
32. Patra M, Bhowmik N, Bandopadhyay B, Sharma A. Comparison of mercury, lead and arsenic with respect to genotoxic effects on plant systems and the development of genetic tolerance. Environ Exp Bot. 2004; 52:199-223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envexpbot.2004.02.009
33. Reddy AM, Kumar SG, Jyotsnakumari G, Thimmanayak S, SudhakarC. Lead induced changes in antioxidant metabolism of horsegram (Macrotyloma uniflorum (Lam.) Verdc.) and bengalgram (Cicer arietinum L.). Chemosphere 2005; 60:97-104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.11.092
34. Meharg AA, Macnair MR. Suppression of the high affinity phosphate uptake system; a mechanism of arsenate tolerance in Holcus lanatus L. J Exp Bot. 1992; 43:519–24. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/43.4.519
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36. Miteva E. Accumulation and effect of arsenic on tomatoes. Commun Soil Sci Plant Anal. 2002; 33:1917–26. https://doi.org/10.1081/CSS-120004832
37. Pickering IJ, Gumaelius L, Harris HH, Prince RC, Hirsch G, Banks JA, Salt DE, George GN. Localizing the biochemical transformations of arsenate in a hyper accumulating fern. Environ Sci Technol. 2006; 40: 5010–14. https://doi.org/10.1021/es052559a
38. Zhao FJ, Ma JF, Meharg AA, McGrath SP. Arsenic uptake and metabolism in plants. New Phytol. 2009; 181: 777–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02716.x
39. Finnegan PM, Chen W. Arsenic toxicity: the effects on plant metabolism. Frontiers in Physiology/Plant Physiology. 2012; vol. 3: article 182. https://doi.org/10.3389 /fphys.2012.00182
40. Cline DJ, Thorpe C, Schneider JP. Effects of As(III) binding on alpha-helical structure. J Am Chem Soc. 2003; 125:2923-29. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja0282644
41. Ramadan D, Cline DJ, Bai S, Thorpe C, Schneider JP. Effects of As(III) binding on ?-hairpin structure. J Am ChemSoc. 2007; 129:2981–88. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja067068k
42. Cakmak I, Marshner H. Effect of zinc nutritional status on superoxide radical and hydrogen peroxide scavenging enzymes in bean leaves. In: Barrow NJ, editor. Plant nutrition-from genetic engineering field practice. Netherlanad: Kluwer; 1993. p. 133–37.
43. Fontes RLS, Cox FR. Zinc toxicity in soybean grown at high iron concentration in nutrient solution. J Plant Nutri.1998; 21:1723–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/01904169809365517
44. Prasad KVSK, Pardha Saradhi P, Sharmila P. Concerted action of antioxidant enzyme and curtailed growth under zinc toxicity in Brassica juncea. Environ Exp Bot. 1999; 42:1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0098-8472(99)00013-1
45. Busher AS, Schenk MK. Toxicity level for phytoavailable zinc in compost peat substrates. Sci Hortic, Amsterdam. 2000; 83:339-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-4238(99)00086-2
46. Ebbs SD, Kochian LV. Toxicity of zinc and copper to Brassica species: implications for phytoremediation. J Environ Qual. 1997; 26:776–81. https://doi.org/10.2134/jeq1997. 00472425002600030026x
47. Dietz KJ, Baier M, Kramer U. Free radicals and reactive oxygen species as mediators of heavy metal toxicity in plants. In: Heavy metal stress in plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. 1999.
48. Michalak A. Phenolic compounds and their antioxidant activity in plants growing under heavy metal stress. Pol J Environ Stud. 2006; 15: 523-30.
49. Singh R, Gautam N, Mishra A, Gupta R. Heavy metals and living systems: an overview. Indian J Pharmacol. 2011; 43: 246-53. https://doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.81505
50. Jaishankar M, Tseten T, Anbalagan N, Mathew BB, Beeregowda KN. Toxicity, mechanism and health effects of some heavy metals. Interdiscip Toxicol. 2014; 7: 60-72. https://doi.org/10.2478/intox-2014-0009
51. Gjorgieva D, KadifkovaPanovska T, Ruskovska T, Ba?eva K, Stafilov T. Influence of heavy metal stress on antioxidant status and DNA damage in Urtica dioica. BioMed Research International (subject Toxicology) 2013a; Volume 2013: Article ID 276417. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/276417
52. Pérez Alvarez S, Sida-Arrerola JP, Chávez ES, Ardisana EFH. Expression analysis and biochemical characterization of beans plants biofortificated with zinc. Saudi J Biol Sci. 2017; 24:1322-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sjbs.2016.12.014
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