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Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants

From Physiology to Remediation

  • 1st Edition - November 28, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Mirza Hasanuzzaman, Masayuki Fujita, Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad
  • Language: English

Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants: From Physiology to Remediation presents a single research resource on the latest in cadmium toxicity and tolerance in plants. The book… Read more

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Description

Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants: From Physiology to Remediation presents a single research resource on the latest in cadmium toxicity and tolerance in plants. The book covers many important areas, including means of Cd reduction, from plant adaptation, including antioxidant defense, active excretion and chelation, to phytoextraction, rhizo filtration, phytodegradation, and much more. In addition, it explores important insights into the physiological and molecular mechanisms of Cd uptake and transport and presents options for improving resistance to Cd stresses. It will be ideal for both researchers and students working on cadmium pollution, plant responses and related fields of environmental contamination and toxicology.

Key features

  • Includes all aspects of cadmium toxicity and tolerance in plants
  • Provides a comprehensive overview of advances in cadmium toxicity, tolerance and adaptation in plants
  • Elaborates on the advancement of eco-friendly techniques for cadmium remediation from soil and water
  • Provides real-world, application focused techniques

Readership

Graduate (M.S. and PhD) Students, faculty and researchers in the field of Plant Science, Agriculture, Agronomy, Soil Science, Agricultural Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Environmental Science

Table of contents

1. Cadmium toxicity and tolerance in plants – An Overview

2. Cadmium toxicity and tolerance in vascular plants - Micro- and phytobiome approach

3. Morphological and physiological responses of plants to cadmium toxicity

4. Adaptive and tolerance mechanisms in herbaceous plants exposed to cadmium

5. Cadmium-induced anatomical abnormalities in plants

6. Cadmium contamination in water and soil

7. Environmental hazards of cadmium: Past, present and future

8. Role of phytochelatins in cadmium stress tolerance

9. Cadmium-induced oxidative stress in plants

10. Cadmium-induced oxidative and nitrosative stress in plants

11. Damage and protection of the photosynthetic apparatus under cadmium stress

12. Cadmium-induced imbalance in nutrient and water uptake in plants

13. The effect of Cd stress in mineral nutrient and water uptake

14. Role of Salicylic acid in mitigating cadmium toxicity in plants

15. Mitigating cadmium toxicity in plants by phytohormones

16. Use of fungi in mitigating cadmium toxicity in plants

17. Microbe-mediated mitigation of cadmium toxicity in plants

18. Use of Solanum nigrum as a potential hyper-accumulator to remediate cadmium contaminated soils

19. Phytoremediation of cadmium contaminated soils by using Sulla coronaria inoculated by efficient and cadmium resistant plant growth promoting bacteria

20. Phytoremediation of cadmium polluted water/sediment by aquatic macrophytes; role of plant-induced pH changes

21. Phytoremediation of cadmium contaminated soils and water

22. Aquatic macrophytes for the remediation of cadmium contaminated sites

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 28, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editors

MH

Mirza Hasanuzzaman

Mirza Hasanuzzaman is a professor of agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his PhD from the United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences. Later, he completed his postdoctoral research in the Center of Molecular Biosciences (COMB), University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. Subsequently, he became an adjunct senior researcher at the University of Tasmania with an Australian government’s Endeavour Research Fellowship. Over his career he has mentored numerous master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral researchers and has published widely on plant physiology, plant stress responses, and environmental challenges affecting plant species, including authored and edited books and book chapters. He serves as an editor and reviewer for many peer-reviewed international journals and was a recipient of the Publons Peer Review Awards (2017, 2018, and 2019). He is an active member of numerous professional societies and holds office as acting general secretary of the Bangladesh JSPS Alumni Association and as publication secretary of both the Bangladesh Society of Agronomy and the Weed Science Society of Bangladesh. His honors include the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) Young Scientist Award (2014), the University Grants Commission (UGC) Gold Medal (2018), the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS) Gold Medal Award (Senior Group, 2022), the Global Network of Bangladeshi Biotechnologists (GNOBB) Award (2021), and the Society for Plant Research Young Scientist Award (Agriculture, 2023). He is a fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences (BAS), the World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), the Royal Society of Biology, and the International Society of Environmental Botanists, and a foreign fellow of the Society for Science of Climate Change and Sustainable Environment.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Agriculture, Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

MF

Masayuki Fujita

Masayuki Fujita is a former professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan. He received his BSc in chemistry from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, and his MAgr and PhD in plant biochemistry from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. His research interests include physiological, biochemical, and molecular biological responses based on secondary metabolism in plants under various abiotic and biotic stresses; phytoalexins, cytochrome P450, glutathione S-transferase, and phytochelatins; and redox reactions and antioxidants. In the last decade, his work has focused on oxidative stress and antioxidant defense in plants under environmental stress. His group investigates the role of various exogenous protectants in enhancing antioxidant defense and methylglyoxal detoxification systems in plants. He has supervised numerous master's and doctoral students and has authored many publications in journals and books, as well as edited several books.
Affiliations and expertise
Former Professor, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan

MV

Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad

Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities.

Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Professor and Former Dean, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

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