Research on the environmental health of emerging contaminants is critical to understand
their risks before causing severe harm. However, the low environmental concentrations …

Most of the heavy metals (HMs), and metals/metalloids are released into the nature either by
natural phenomenon or anthropogenic activities. Being sessile organisms, plants are …

Hyperaccumulator plants are the material basis for phytoextraction research and for practical
applications in decontaminating polluted soils and industrial wastes. China's high …

The two forms of inorganic arsenic, arsenate (AsV) and arsenite (AsIII), are easily taken up
by the cells of the plant root. Once in the cell, AsV can be readily converted to AsIII, the more …

The term “hyperaccumulator” describes a number of plants that belong to distantly related
families, but share the ability to grow on metalliferous soils and to accumulate extraordinarily …

The use of photoinitiated polymerization is continuously growing in industry as reflected by
the large number of applications in not only conventional areas such as coatings, inks, and …

Arsenic (As) is an element that is nonessential for and toxic to plants. Arsenic contamination
in the environment occurs in many regions, and, depending on environmental factors, its …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Arsenic toxicity has become a global concern owing to the ever-increasing contamination of
water, soil and crops in many regions of the world. To limit the detrimental impact of arsenic …

Arsenic (As) is an element belonging to the group VA, and it demonstrates characteristics of
a metalloid. Because arsenic more easily forms anions, its non-metal properties dominate …