Plants and their Interaction to Environmental Pollution
Damage Detection, Adaptation, Tolerance, Physiological and Molecular Responses
- 1st Edition - November 4, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Azamal Husen
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 9 7 8 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 3 0 9 - 9
Environmental pollution as a consequence of diverse human activities has become a global concern. Urbanization, mining, industrial revolution, burning of fossil fuels/firewood an… Read more
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Request a sales quoteEnvironmental pollution as a consequence of diverse human activities has become a global concern. Urbanization, mining, industrial revolution, burning of fossil fuels/firewood and poor agricultural practices, in addition to improper dumping of waste products, are largely responsible for the undesirable change in the environment composition. Environmental pollution is mainly classified as air pollution, water pollution, land pollution, noise pollution, thermal pollution, light pollution, and plastic pollution. Nowadays, it has been realized that with the increasing environmental pollution, impurities may accumulate in plants, which are required for basic human uses such as for food, clothing, medicine, and so on. Environmental pollution has tremendous impacts on phenological events, structural patterns, physiological phenomena, biochemical status, and the cellular and molecular features of plants. Exposure to environmental pollution induces acute or chronic injury depending on the pollutant concentration, exposure duration, season and plant species. Moreover, the global rise of greenhouse gases such as carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, methane, chlorofluorocarbons and ozone in the atmosphere is among the major threats to the biodiversity. They have also shown visible impacts on life cycles and distribution of various plant species. Anthropogenic activities, including the fossil-fuel combustion in particular, are responsible for steady increases in the atmospheric greenhouse gases concentrations. This phenomenon accelerates the global heating. Studies have suggested that the changes in carbon dioxide concentrations, rainfall and temperature have greatly influenced the plant physiological and metabolic activities including the formation of biologically active ingredients. Taken together, plants interact with pollutants, and cause adverse ecological and economic outcomes. Therefore, plant response to pollutants requires more investigation in terms of damage detection, adaptation, tolerance, and the physiological and molecular responses.
The complex interplay among other emerging pollutants, namely, radioisotopes, cell-phone radiation, nanoparticles, nanocomposites, heavy metals etc. and their impact on plant adaptation strategies, and possibility to recover, mitigation, phytoremediation, etc., also needs to be explored. Further, it is necessary to elucidate better the process of the pollutant’s uptake by plant and accumulation in the food chain, and the plant resistance capability against the various kinds of environmental pollutants. In this context, the identification of tolerance mechanisms in plants against pollutants can help in developing eco-friendly technologies, which requires molecular approaches to increase plant tolerance to pollutants, such as plant transformation and genetic modifications. Pollutant-induced overproduction of reactive oxygen species that cause DNA damage and apoptosis-related alterations, has also been examined. They also trigger changes at the levels of transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome, which has been discussed in this book.
- Presents a multidimensional approach and a broad range of explanation on different aspects of environmental pollution and the overall interaction of food, cash crops, horticultural, water and wetland plants, herbs, and endangered plant species
- Discusses a number of growth features, physiological attributes, and the cellular and molecular phenomena of plants under emerging environmental pollution
- Explains about the overproduction of reactive oxygen species that cause DNA damage and apoptosis-related alterations
- Examines the changes at the levels of transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome
- The authors have crafted each chapter with immense clarity, reviewed up-to-date literature and presented all available information with lucid illustrations
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- About the editor
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Plants and their unexpected response to environmental pollution: An overview
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Plant response to air pollution
- 3: Plant response to photochemical oxidants
- 4: Plant response to light pollution
- 5: Plant response to soil pollution
- 6: Plant response to water pollution
- 7: Plant response to noise pollution
- 8: Plant response to nanoparticles
- 9: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 2: Effect of UV-B radiation on plants growth, active constituents, and productivity
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Physiological reactions of plants in response to UV-B-radiation
- 3: UV-B signaling in the plant
- 4: Plants protection mechanisms from the negative effects of UV-B
- 5: Applications of UV-B radiation in practice
- 6: Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 3: Effect of elevated CO2 on plant growth, active constituents, and production
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Current status of CO2 and historical perspectives
- 3: Effect of high CO2 on plant growth
- 4: Effect on the production of active constituents
- 5: Deleterious effect of alleviated CO2 on the plant architecture
- 6: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4: Effect of elevated O3 on plants growth, active constituents, and production
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Chemistry of tropospheric O3 formation
- 3: Mechanisms by which O3 damages plant tissue
- 4: Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
- 5: Toxicology of plants
- 6: The effects of ozone on plants
- 7: Measurements of ozone-induced changes
- 8: Visible injury and physiological effects
- 9: Effects on plant growth
- 10: Biochemical effects of O3
- 11: Productivity measurements
- 12: The impact on crops and trees
- 13: Ozone and reactive oxygen species
- 14: Ozone as a disinfectant for the surface
- 15: ROS and plant cell metabolism
- 16: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 5: Plants response to SO2 or acid deposition
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Plant and SO2 or acid rain
- 3: Plants response to SO2 or acid deposition
- 4: Plants develops their defense system
- 5: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6: Fly ash toxicity, concerned issues and possible impacts on plant health and production
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Fly ash composition
- 3: Causes of fly ash toxicity
- 4: Impact of fly ash on crop health and productivity
- 5: Effects of heavy metals on plant metabolism and physiology
- 6: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 7: Effect of coal-smoke pollution on plants growth, metabolism and production
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Principal phytotoxic gases of coal burning and their impact on flora
- 3: Other gases/release of coal burning and their impact on vegetation of the world
- 4: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 8: Effect of heavy metals on growth, physiological and biochemical responses of plants
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Effect of heavy metal pollution on plants
- 3: Cadmium (Cd)
- 4: Lead (Pb)
- 5: Arsenic (As)
- 6: Mercury (Hg)
- 7: Metal stress tolerance mechanisms in plants
- 8: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 9: Interaction of nanoparticles and nanocomposite with plant and environment
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Sources of nanomaterials
- 3: Classification of nanoparticles
- 4: Organization of nanomaterials based on their sizes
- 5: Types of nanomaterials based on their source
- 6: Types of nanoparticles related to plants
- 7: Cerium NPs (CeO NPs)
- 8: Silicon NPs (SiNPs)
- 9: Titanium dioxide NPs (TiO2 NPs)
- 10: Nano pesticides
- 11: Nanoemulsion
- 12: Interaction of NMs with soil and rhizosphere
- 13: Interaction of NMs with overall environment
- 14: Factors influencing the uptake and translocation of NPs
- 15: NPs for plant pathogen detection
- 16: Transport and interaction
- 17: Nanoparticle-plant interaction pathways
- 18: Effects of ion-releasing NP
- 19: Impact of natural organic material on NP-induced effects
- 20: Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 10: Toxic effects of essential metals on plants: From damage to adaptation responses
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Metal toxicity in plants
- 3: Metal toxicity and its damage detection
- 4: Repair strategies and plant response
- 5: Adaptation responses
- 6: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 11: Phytoremediation strategies of plants: Challenges and opportunities
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Mechanism of heavy metal remediation
- 3: Phytoremediation of contaminated soil to grow food
- 4: Phytoremediation for bioenergy production
- 5: Valorization of phytoremediation by-products
- 6: Challenges associated with phytoremediation
- 7: Conclusion and future perspective
- References
- Chapter 12: Pesticide toxicity and their impact on plant growth, active constituents and productivity
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Phytotoxicity effects on plants
- 3: Pesticides phytotoxicity symptoms on plants
- 4: Impact of pesticide toxicity on soil health and plant
- 5: Other measures for the prevention of pesticides phytotoxicity
- 6: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 13: Plant responses to water pollution
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Water pollution: Definition, types, and extent of the problem
- 3: Plant and water pollution
- 4: Concluding remarks
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 14: Plant response to industrial waste
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Types of plants
- 3: Response of plant to industrial waste
- 4: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 15: Radioisotopes and their impact on plants
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction to radioisotopes
- 2: Radioisotopes as pollutants
- 3: Effects of radiation on plant diversity
- 4: Effects of radiation in plant morphology
- 5: Effects of radiation in plant physiology and molecular biology
- 6: Radio-adaptation by plants
- 7: Use of radioisotopes in crop improvement: A positive side
- 8: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 16: Effects of cell phone radiation on plants growth, active constituents and production
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Plants and cell phone radiation or GSM radiation
- 3: Effects of cell phone radiation on plant system
- 4: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 17: Effects of major munitions compounds on plant health and function
- Abstract
- 1: Warfare and the environment
- 2: Global munitions issue
- 3: Chemical relics of war
- 4: Environmental behavior
- 5: Explosives and vegetation
- 6: Monitoring going forward
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 18: Aquatic macrophytes and trace elements: Deleterious effects, biomarkers, adaptation mechanisms, and potential new wave of phytoremediation processes
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Trace elements and aquatic plants or macrophytes
- 3: Biomarkers and adaptation mechanisms of macrophytes
- 4: Macrophytes: A potential new wave of phytoremediation processes
- 5: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 19: Production and role of plants secondary metabolites under various environmental pollution
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Effect of elevated CO2 (EC) levels on PSMs
- 3: Effect of ozone (O3) on PSMs
- 4: Effect of toxic gases on the production of PSMs
- 5: Effect of heavy metals on PSMs
- 6: Effect of particulate matter (PM) on PSMs
- 7: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 20: Plant proteomics and environmental pollution
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Approaches and challenges in crop plant proteomics
- 3: Plant proteomic technologies—Recent innovations and their applications
- 4: Cellular proteome to subcellular protein catalogues
- 5: Organ-specific proteome analysis of plants in concern to environmental pollutants
- 6: Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 21: Genetic modification and genome engineering of plants for adverse environmental pollution
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Current scenario of globe and human towards pollution
- 3: Pollution: Effects on plants
- 4: Engineering plants
- 5: Conclusion and future prospects
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 4, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 468
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323999786
- eBook ISBN: 9780323983099
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Azamal Husen
Azamal Husen served as Professor and Head of the Department of Biology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia and is a Foreign Delegate at Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, Ethiopia. Previously, he was a Visiting Faculty of the Forest Research Institute, and the Doon College of Agriculture and Forest at Dehra Dun, India. Husen’s research and teaching experience of 20 years includes biogenic nanomaterial fabrication and application, plant responses to nanomaterials, plant adaptation to harsh environments at the physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels, herbal medicine, and clonal propagation for improvement of tree species. Dr Husen contributed to R&D projects of World Bank, ICAR, ICFRE, JBIC etc. He has >250 publications . He is Series Co-Editor of ‘Plant Biology, Sustainability and Climate Change’, Elsevier.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Head, Department of Biology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia and Foreign Delegate, Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita, EthiopiaRead Plants and their Interaction to Environmental Pollution on ScienceDirect