Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants
From Physiology to Remediation

Contains the most relevant information on plant response and tolerance to cadmium toxicity, including underlying mechanisms

Mirza Hasanuzzaman (Edited by), Majeti Narasimha Var Prasad (Edited by), Masayuki Fujita (Edited by)

9780128148648

Paperback, published 5 December 2018

619 pages, 65 illustrations (25 in full color)
22.9 x 15.1 x 3.8 cm, 1.04 kg

Approx.589 pages

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

Subject Areas: Agronomy & crop production [TVK], Agriculture & farming [TV], The environment [RN], Soil science, sedimentology [RBGB], Plant physiology [PSTD], Botany & plant sciences [PST], Biochemistry [PSB]