Chromium speciation, bioavailability, uptake, toxicity and detoxification in soil-plant system: A review

M Shahid, S Shamshad, M Rafiq, S Khalid, I Bibi… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Chromium (Cr) is a potentially toxic heavy metal which does not have any essential
metabolic function in plants. Various past and recent studies highlight the biogeochemistry …

Chromium-induced reactive oxygen species accumulation by altering the enzymatic antioxidant system and associated cytotoxic, genotoxic, ultrastructural, and …

A Wakeel, M Xu, Y Gan - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Chromium (Cr) is one of the top seven toxic heavy metals, being ranked 21st among the
abundantly found metals in the earth's crust. A huge amount of Cr releases from various …

Chromium toxicity and tolerance in plants

HP Singh, P Mahajan, S Kaur, DR Batish… - Environmental Chemistry …, 2013 - Springer
Chromium (Cr) is the second most common metal contaminant in ground water, soil, and
sediments due to its wide industrial application, hence posing a serious environmental …

Chromium as an environmental pollutant: insights on induced plant toxicity

H Oliveira - Journal of Botany, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decades the increased use of chromium (Cr) in several anthropogenic activities
and consequent contamination of soil and water have become an increasing concern. Cr …

Phytotoxic and genotoxic effects of silver nanoparticles exposure on germinating wheat seedlings

C Vannini, G Domingo, E Onelli, F De Mattia… - Journal of plant …, 2014 - Elsevier
We investigated the effects of 1 and 10 mg L− 1 AgNPs on germinating Triticum aestivum L.
seedlings. The exposure to 10 mg L− 1 AgNPs adversely affected the seedling growth and …

Lead contamination reduces chlorophyll biosynthesis and genomic template stability in Brassica rapa L.

S Cenkci, İH Ciğerci, M Yıldız, C Özay, A Bozdağ… - … and experimental botany, 2010 - Elsevier
In recent years, multiple biomarker systems have been frequently used to measure the
genotoxic effects of environmental pollutants on living organisms. In this research, fodder …

DNA changes in barley (Hordeum vulgare) seedlings induced by cadmium pollution using RAPD analysis

W Liu, PJ Li, XM Qi, QX Zhou, L Zheng, TH Sun… - Chemosphere, 2005 - Elsevier
In recent years, several plant species have been used as bioindicators, and several tests
have been developed to evaluate the toxicity of environmental contaminants on vegetal …

Vetiver grass: an environment clean-up tool for heavy metal contaminated iron ore mine-soil

R Banerjee, P Goswami, K Pathak, A Mukherjee - Ecological Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Aims Vetiver grass–Chyrsopogon zizanioides (L.) Roberty is a known plant tolerant
to heavy metals and its use as an alternative method for rehabilitation of iron ore mine-soil …

Cr(VI) Induces DNA Damage, Cell Cycle Arrest and Polyploidization: A Flow Cytometric and Comet Assay Study in Pisum sativum

E Rodriguez, R Azevedo, P Fernandes… - Chemical Research in …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Chromium (VI) is recognized as the most toxic valency of Cr, but its genotoxicity and
cytostaticity in plants is still poorly studied. In order to analyze Cr (VI) cyto-and gentotoxicity …

The Genotoxic Effect of ZnO and CuO Nanoparticles on Early Growth of Buckwheat, Fagopyrum Esculentum

S Lee, H Chung, S Kim, I Lee - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2013 - Springer
Many airborne and soil-borne nanoparticles (NPs) can enter plants, which are the primary
producers in the food chain; recently, studies on the genotoxic effects of NPs on plants are …