Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants

From Physiology to Remediation
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-12-814864-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 619 Seiten, Format (B × H): 228 mm x 151 mm, Gewicht: 1040 g

Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants: From Physiology to Remediation presents a single research resource on the latest in cadmium toxicity and tolerance in plants. The book covers many important areas, including means of Cd reduction, from plant adaptation, including antioxidant defense, active excretion and chelation, to phytoextraction, rhizo filtration, phytodegradation, and much more. In addition, it explores important insights into the physiological and molecular mechanisms of Cd uptake and transport and presents options for improving resistance to Cd stresses. It will be ideal for both researchers and students working on cadmium pollution, plant responses and related fields of environmental contamination and toxicology.

Zielgruppe

<p>Graduate (M.S. and PhD) Students, faculty and researchers in the field of Plant Science, Agriculture, Agronomy, Soil Science, Agricultural Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Environmental Science</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hasanuzzaman, Mirza

Fujita, Masayuki

Vara Prasad, Majeti Narasimha

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Bodenkunde, Sedimentologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Molekularbiologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Nutzpflanzen: Biologie, Genetik, Pflanzenzüchtung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biochemie (nichtmedizinisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Cadmium toxicity and tolerance in plants - An Overview 2. Cadmium toxicity and tolerance in vascular plants - Micro- and phytobiome approach 3. Morphological and physiological responses of plants to cadmium toxicity 4. Adaptive and tolerance mechanisms in herbaceous plants exposed to cadmium 5. Cadmium-induced anatomical abnormalities in plants 6. Cadmium contamination in water and soil 7. Environmental hazards of cadmium: Past, present and future 8. Role of phytochelatins in cadmium stress tolerance 9. Cadmium-induced oxidative stress in plants 10. Cadmium-induced oxidative and nitrosative stress in plants 11. Damage and protection of the photosynthetic apparatus under cadmium stress 12. Cadmium-induced imbalance in nutrient and water uptake in plants 13. The effect of Cd stress in mineral nutrient and water uptake 14. Role of Salicylic acid in mitigating cadmium toxicity in plants 15. Mitigating cadmium toxicity in plants by phytohormones 16. Use of fungi in mitigating cadmium toxicity in plants 17. Microbe-mediated mitigation of cadmium toxicity in plants 18. Use of Solanum nigrum as a potential hyper-accumulator to remediate cadmium contaminated soils 19. Phytoremediation of cadmium contaminated soils by using Sulla coronaria inoculated by efficient and cadmium resistant plant growth promoting bacteria 20. Phytoremediation of cadmium polluted water/sediment by aquatic macrophytes; role of plant-induced pH changes 21. Phytoremediation of cadmium contaminated soils and water 22. Aquatic macrophytes for the remediation of cadmium contaminated sites

Über Autor(innen)

Fujita, Masayuki
Dr. Masayuki Fujita is a Professor in the Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, and his M.Agr. and Ph.D. in Plant Biochemistry from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. His research interests include physiological, biochemical and molecular biological responses based on secondary metabolism in plants under biotic (pathogenic fungal infection) and abiotic (salinity, drought, extreme temperatures and heavy metals) stresses; phytoalexin, cytochrome P-450, glutathione S-transferase, phytochelatin and redox reaction and antioxidants. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has multiple books.

Vara Prasad, Majeti Narasimha
Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India's Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities.

Hasanuzzaman, Mirza
Dr. Mirza Hasanuzzaman is Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka. He is a specialist in agronomy, plant stress responses, and crop physiology. His current work is focused on the physiological and molecular mechanisms of environmental stress tolerance (salinity, drought, flood, and heavy metals/metalloids). Dr. Hasanuzzaman has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has edited six books and written 30 book chapters on important aspects of plant physiology, plant stress tolerance, and crop production.