Heavy metals and arsenic stress in food crops: Elucidating antioxidative defense mechanisms in hyperaccumulators for food security, agricultural sustainability, and …

PK Rai, C Sonne, KH Kim - Science of The Total Environment, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The spread of heavy metal (loid) s at soil-food crop interfaces has become a threat to
sustainable agricultural productivity, food security, and human health. The eco-toxic effects …

[HTML][HTML] miRNAs for crop improvement

A Raza, S Charagh, B Karikari, R Sharif… - Plant Physiology and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Climate change significantly impacts crop production by inducing several abiotic and biotic
stresses. The increasing world population, and their food and industrial demands require …

Integrated physiological, transcriptomic and metabolomic analysis of the response of Trifolium pratense L. to Pb toxicity

L Meng, Y Yang, Z Ma, J Jiang, X Zhang, Z Chen… - Journal of hazardous …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Lead (Pb) interferes with plant gene expression, alters metabolite contents and affects plant
growth. However, the molecular mechanism underlying the plant response to Pb is not …

The roles of HD-ZIP proteins in plant abiotic stress tolerance

Y Li, Z Yang, Y Zhang, J Guo, L Liu, C Wang… - Frontiers in plant …, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Homeodomain leucine zipper (HD-ZIP) proteins are plant-specific transcription factors that
contain a homeodomain (HD) and a leucine zipper (LZ) domain. The highly conserved HD …

[HTML][HTML] Plant E3 ligases and their role in abiotic stress response

R Al-Saharin, H Hellmann, S Mooney - Cells, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Plants, as sessile organisms, have limited means to cope with environmental changes.
Consequently, they have developed complex regulatory systems to ameliorate abiotic …

MAPK cascades and transcriptional factors: regulation of heavy metal tolerance in plants

S Li, X Han, Z Lu, W Qiu, M Yu, H Li, Z He… - International Journal of …, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
In nature, heavy metal (HM) stress is one of the most destructive abiotic stresses for plants.
Heavy metals produce toxicity by targeting key molecules and important processes in plant …

PGPR-Enabled bioremediation of pesticide and heavy metal-contaminated soil: A review of recent advances and emerging challenges

I Sharma, S Sharma, V Sharma, AK Singh, A Sharma… - Chemosphere, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The excessive usage of agrochemicals, including pesticides, along with various reckless
human actions, has ensued discriminating prevalence of pesticides and heavy metals (HMs) …

Genome editing and improvement of abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants

RK Yadav, MK Tripathi, S Tiwari, N Tripathi, R Asati… - Life, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Genome editing aims to revolutionise plant breeding and could assist in safeguarding the
global food supply. The inclusion of a 12–40 bp recognition site makes mega nucleases the …

CRISPR/Cas genome editing improves abiotic and biotic stress tolerance of crops

Y Li, X Wu, Y Zhang, Q Zhang - Frontiers in Genome Editing, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Abiotic stress such as cold, drought, saline-alkali stress and biotic stress including disease
and insect pest are the main factors that affect plant growth and limit agricultural productivity …

[HTML][HTML] Nanomaterial-based sensors and strategies for heavy metal ion detection

X Xu, S Yang, Y Wang, K Qian - Green Analytical Chemistry, 2022‏ - Elsevier
As one of the most serious toxic contaminants, heavy metal ions have severely threatened
the living environment and biological system. Accurate and rapid detection of toxic metal …