Plant growth is affected by various abiotic stresses, including water, temperature, light, salt,
and heavy metals. Selenium (Se) is not an essential nutrient for plants but plays important …

Being sessile organisms, plants are frequently exposed to various environmental stresses
that cause several physiological disorders and even death. Oxidative stress is one of the …

Accumulation of arsenic (As) in soils is increasing consistently day-by-day, which has
resulted in increased toxicity of this element in various crop plants. Arsenic interferes with …

The oxygenated short aldehyde methylglyoxal (MG) is produced in plants as a by-product of
a number of metabolic reactions, including elimination of phosphate groups from glycolysis …

The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of arsenic (As) toxicity and the
mitigating role of nitric oxide (NO) donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP) on Vicia faba. Arsenics …

Heavy metals are an interesting group of trace elements (TEs). Some of them are minutely
required for normal plant growth and development, while others have unknown biological …

Abiotic stresses are the most common harmful factors, adversely affecting all aspects of
plants' life. Plants have to elicit appropriate responses against multifaceted effects of abiotic …

Contamination of agricultural land and water by heavy metals due to rapid industrialization
and urbanization including various natural processes have become one of the major …

Among heavy metals, cadmium (Cd) is one of the toxic metals, which significantly reduce the
growth of plants even at a low concentration. Cd interacts with various plant mechanisms at …

Glyoxalase 2 is a mitochondrial and cytoplasmic protein belonging to the metallo-β-
lactamase family encoded by the hydroxyacylglutathione hydrolase (HAGH) gene. This …