Abstract Background Arsenic (As) and cadmium (Cd) are two toxic elements that have a
relatively high risk of transfer from paddy soil to rice grain. Rice is a major dietary source of …

Rice is one of the principal staple foods, essential for safeguarding the global food and
nutritional security, but due to different natural and anthropogenic sources, it also acts as …

Arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury are toxic elements that are almost ubiquitously present
at low levels in the environment because of anthropogenic influences. Dietary intake of plant …

Background: Concerns for arsenic exposure are not limited to toxic waste sites and massive
poisoning events. Chronic exposure continues to be a major public health problem …

This paper reviews how active research in West Bengal has unmasked the endemic
arsenism that has detrimental effects on the health of millions of people and their offspring. It …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is primary dietary source for half of the global population that
comprising both essential nutrients and toxic heavy metal elements for human health. A …

The biotransformation of arsenic is highly relevant to the arsenic biogeochemical cycle.
Identification of the molecular details of microbial pathways of arsenic biotransformation …

Agriculture is faced with the challenge of providing healthy food for a growing population at
minimal environmental cost. Rice (Oryza sativa), the staple crop for the largest number of …

Rapid industrialization in China in recent decades has resulted in soil contamination in
some areas, raising the concern about food safety. Consumption of rice represents a major …

This review is on arsenic in agronomic systems, and covers processes that influence the
entry of arsenic into the human food supply. The scope is from sources of arsenic (natural …