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Molecular Mechanism of Lead Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants

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Lead Toxicity: Challenges and Solution

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Lead is found naturally in the environment and distributed due to its widespread application in petrol, paints, sludge, explosives as well as industrial effluents. In plants, toxicity is caused due to lead uptake as well as translocation which results in reduction of biomass yield. Generally, plants might avert the harmful influences of heavy metals by inducing of several cellular processes like compartmentalization inside the vacuoles, increase in the active efflux, adsorption to the cell wall, or generation of high concentration of metal chelates as protein complex like phytochelatins and metallothioneins, complexes of inorganic sulphides and organic citrates. Contrary to other metals, not much information is available for the processes of lead uptake, toxicity, generation of oxidative stress as well as detoxification in plants. Understanding physiological as well as biochemical processes involved in intake and translocation together with toxicity and tolerance of Lead in plants.

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Srivastava, D., Srivastava, N. (2023). Molecular Mechanism of Lead Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants. In: Kumar, N., Jha, A.K. (eds) Lead Toxicity: Challenges and Solution. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37327-5_12

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