Background Recently, there is an increasing market trend for innovative functional/power
foods and dietary supplements from natural compounds. Therefore the evaluation of …

By 2050, the increasing demand for food will put additional pressure on natural resources.
Underutilized crops, such as wild vegetables, are an essential component of the …

Since many agricultural crops have a low tolerance to salt, they have the potential to
become unnecessary in the future with increased soil salinity. Halophytes known as …

Phytoremediation is an economic process through exploitation of plants capacity to
accumulate heavy metals in polluted habitats by their harvestable parts. In the present …

Industrialization has become an important factor to the development of a country's economy,
through the establishment of plants and factories. However, the waste or by-products …

Soils with high lead (Pb) levels can be decontaminated with the use of tolerant plants. Their
effectiveness may be increased with added soil N due to boosted plant vigor, but such an …

The purpose of this review is to describe how plants take up lead and its distribution to plant
parts, morphological, physiological, and biological effects of lead on plants, sequestration …

The present investigation was undertaken to study the growth, biomass, physiological‐
biochemical responses and chromium (C r) accumulation capacity of hydroponically grown …

The cadmium (Cd), being a widespread soils pollutant and one of the most toxic heavy
metals in the environment, adversely affects sustainable crop production and food safety …

In a pot experiment, we assessed the potential of purslane (Portulaca oleracea) as a
phytoremediation species in Cr (VI)-contaminated soils. We focused on the evaluation of …