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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: December 5, 2018
  • Language: English

About the editors

MH

Mirza Hasanuzzaman

Mirza Hasanuzzaman is Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka. He is a specialist in agronomy, plant stress responses, and crop physiology. His current work is focused on the physiological and molecular mechanisms of environmental stress tolerance (salinity, drought, flood, and heavy metals/metalloids). Dr. Hasanuzzaman has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has edited six books and written 30 book chapters on important aspects of plant physiology, plant stress tolerance, and crop production.
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 in the Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, and his M.Agr. and Ph.D. 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 biotic (pathogenic fungal infection) and abiotic (salinity, drought, extreme temperatures and heavy metals) stresses; phytoalexin, cytochrome P-450, glutathione S-transferase, phytochelatin and redox reaction and antioxidants. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has multiple 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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