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Functions And Toxicity Of Cadmium In Plants: Recent Advances And Future Prospects, Tuan Anh Tran, Losanka Petrova Popova
Functions And Toxicity Of Cadmium In Plants: Recent Advances And Future Prospects, Tuan Anh Tran, Losanka Petrova Popova
Turkish Journal of Botany
Heavy metals are important environmental pollutants and their toxicity is a problem of increasing significance for ecological, evolutionary, nutritional, and environmental reasons. Of all non-essential heavy metals, cadmium (Cd) is perhaps the metal that has attracted the most attention in soil science and plant nutrition due to its potential toxicity to humans, and also its relative mobility in the soil-plant system. This review emphasises Cd toxicity on plants with regards to ecological, physiological, and biochemical aspects. It summarises the toxic symptoms of Cd in plants (i.e. growth and plant development, alterations in photosynthesis, stomatal regulation, enzymatic activities, water relation, mineral …