Aluminum, a friend or foe of higher plants in acid soils

E Bojórquez-Quintal, C Escalante-Magaña… - Frontiers in plant …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Aluminum (Al) is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust, but its availability depends on
soil pH. Despite this abundance, Al is not considered an essential element and so far no …

Metal tolerance in plants: Molecular and physicochemical interface determines the “not so heavy effect” of heavy metals

M Thakur, S Praveen, PR Divte, R Mitra, M Kumar… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
An increase in technological interventions and ruthless urbanization in the name of
development has deteriorated our environment over time and caused the buildup of heavy …

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 …

Improving intercrop**: a synthesis of research in agronomy, plant physiology and ecology

RW Brooker, AE Bennett, WF Cong, TJ Daniell… - New …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Intercrop** is a farming practice involving two or more crop species, or genotypes,
growing together and coexisting for a time. On the fringes of modern intensive agriculture …

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi as potential agents in ameliorating heavy metal stress in plants

R Dhalaria, D Kumar, H Kumar, E Nepovimova, K Kuča… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Heavy metal accumulation in plants is a severe environmental problem, rising at an
expeditious rate. Heavy metals such as cadmium, arsenic, mercury and lead are known …

Toxicity and tolerance of aluminum in plants: tailoring plants to suit to acid soils

H Sade, B Meriga, V Surapu, J Gadi, MSL Sunita… - Biometals, 2016 - Springer
Aluminum (Al) stress is one of the serious limiting factors in plant productivity in acidic soils,
which constitute about 50% of the world's potentially arable lands and causes anywhere …

Jacks of metal/metalloid chelation trade in plants—an overview

NA Anjum, M Hasanuzzaman, MA Hossain… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Varied environmental compartments including soils are being contaminated by a myriad
toxic metal (loid) s (hereafter termed as “metal/s”) mainly through anthropogenic activities …

Nature and mechanisms of aluminium toxicity, tolerance and amelioration in symbiotic legumes and rhizobia

SK Jaiswal, J Naamala, FD Dakora - Biology and fertility of soils, 2018 - Springer
Recent findings on the effect of aluminium (Al) on the functioning of legumes and their
associated microsymbionts are reviewed here. Al represents 7% of solid matter in the Earth's …

Genetic engineering of glycinebetaine synthesis enhances cadmium tolerance in BADH-transgenic tobacco plants via reducing cadmium uptake and alleviating …

C Li, T Zhang, P Feng, D Li, M Brestic, Y Liu… - … and Experimental Botany, 2021 - Elsevier
Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic non-essential elements to plants, and its accumulation in plants can
affect human health through the food chain. Glycinebetaine (GB) is an effective osmotic …

[HTML][HTML] Morpho-physiological analysis of tolerance to aluminum toxicity in rice varieties of North East India

JP Awasthi, B Saha, P Regon, S Sahoo, U Chowra… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Aluminum (Al) is the third most abundant metal in earth crust, whose chemical form is mainly
dependent on soil pH. The most toxic form of Al with respect to plants is Al3+, which exists in …