Plant Responses to Heavy Metal Toxicity
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Metals and Radioactive Substances".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 399
Special Issue Editors
Interests: abiotic stress biochemistry; plant response to oxidative stress caused by potentially toxic substances; heavy metal phytotoxicity; plant contamination; mineral element quantification; effect of pharmaceutical products in plants; food safety
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: abiotic stress biochemistry; plant response to oxidative stress caused by potentially toxic substances; heavy metal phytotoxicity; plant contamination; food safety
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our society relies on different technological processes that use a large amount of different metals. Some of them can be considered as heavy metals, and anthropogenic activities like agriculture, mining, industry and transportation can release them to the environment, having a negative impact on plants and animals.
Some heavy metals are essential for life, usually in small amounts (Cu, Zn, Fe, etc), but can be toxic at high concentrations; meanwhile, others have no known biological function (e.g., Cd and Pb) and can thus be toxic even in small concentrations.
This Special Issue welcomes studies regarding the effect of all types of heavy metals (including rare earth elements)—both essential and non-essential—in all kinds of plants, including research in relation to uptake, tolerance, defence mechanisms, toxicity effects and food chain contamination. In this Special Issue both original research articles and reviews related to the topics above are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Miguel Pedro Mourato
Prof. Dr. Luisa Louro Martins
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heavy metals
- rare earth elements
- plant accumulation
- plant defence
- plant contamination
- abiotic stress
- antioxidative mechanisms
