Heavy metal tolerance in plants: role of transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and ionomics

S Singh, P Parihar, R Singh, VP Singh… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Heavy metal contamination of soil and water causing toxicity/stress has become one
important constraint to crop productivity and quality. This situation has further worsened by …

Arsenic as a food chain contaminant: mechanisms of plant uptake and metabolism and mitigation strategies

FJ Zhao, SP McGrath, AA Meharg - Annual review of plant …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
Arsenic (As) is an environmental and food chain contaminant. Excessive accumulation of As,
particularly inorganic arsenic (As i), in rice (Oryza sativa) poses a potential health risk to …

Arsenic uptake and metabolism in plants

FJ Zhao, JF Ma, AA Meharg, SP McGrath - New Phytologist, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Arsenic toxicity: the effects on plant metabolism

PM Finnegan, W Chen - Frontiers in physiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Arsenic toxicity in plants: cellular and molecular mechanisms of its transport and metabolism

MA Farooq, F Islam, B Ali, U Najeeb, B Mao… - Environmental and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Arsenic (As), a naturally-occurring metalloid, is not essential for plant growth, but it
can accumulate in plants to toxic levels. As a result, it can enter the food chain and pose …

Regulation of the plant cell cycle in response to hormones and the environment

A Shimotohno, SS Aki, N Takahashi… - Annual review of plant …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Developmental and environmental signals converge on cell cycle machinery to achieve
proper and flexible organogenesis under changing environments. Studies on the plant cell …

Arsenic in the hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata: A review of benefits, toxicity, and metabolism

F Zhao, Y Han, H Shi, G Wang, M Zhou… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Arsenic (As) is a toxic metalloid, elevated levels of which in soils are becoming a major
global environmental issue that poses potential health risks to humans. Pteris vittata, the first …

Arsenic transport in rice and biological solutions to reduce arsenic risk from rice

Y Chen, YH Han, Y Cao, YG Zhu… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) feeds∼ 3 billion people. Due to the wide occurrence of arsenic (As)
pollution in paddy soils and its efficient plant uptake, As in rice grains presents health risks …

OsHAC1; 1 and OsHAC1; 2 function as arsenate reductases and regulate arsenic accumulation

S Shi, T Wang, Z Chen, Z Tang, Z Wu, DE Salt… - Plant …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Rice is a major dietary source of the toxic metalloid arsenic (As). Reducing its accumulation
in rice (Oryza sativa) grain is of critical importance to food safety. Rice roots take up arsenate …

Genome-wide association map** identifies a new arsenate reductase enzyme critical for limiting arsenic accumulation in plants

DY Chao, Y Chen, J Chen, S Shi, Z Chen, C Wang… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Inorganic arsenic is a carcinogen, and its ingestion through foods such as rice presents a
significant risk to human health. Plants chemically reduce arsenate to arsenite. Using …