Phytoremediation
Management of Environmental Contaminants, Volume 7
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M. Naeem
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Copper and Cadmium Signaling in Plants Under Stressed and Non-stressed Conditions
Soil contamination by heavy metals is a prevalent environmental problem caused by factors like urbanization, industrial growth, agriculture, waste disposal, and mining. These contaminants have harmful effects ...
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Exogenous Strigolactone (GR24) Positively Regulates Growth, Photosynthesis, and Improves Glandular Trichome Attributes for Enhanced Artemisinin Production in Artemisia annua
Artemisia annua is a medicinal plant particularly known for the production of a sesquiterpene lactone artemisinin; a specialty metabolite known for its efficacy in the treatment of malaria by killing different st...
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Cellular Responses, Osmotic Adjustments, and Role of Osmolytes in Providing Salt Stress Resilience in Higher Plants: Polyamines and Nitric Oxide Crosstalk
Salinity stress is a chief abiotic hindrance affecting crop productivity and yield particularly in arid and semi-arid regions across the globe. Plants have evolved a network of physiological and molecular mec...
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Phytoremediation and Management of Environmental Contaminants: Conclusion and Future Perspectives
Contamination of the environment (soil and water) due to rapid urbanization, industrialization practices, luxurious use of agrochemicals (chemical fertilizers and pesticides), heavy metals, and metalloids pose...
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Phytoremediation and Management of Environmental Contaminants: An Overview
The rapid increase in the global population, urbanization and industrialization, electroplating, nonferrous metal smelting, mine tailing, and intensive use of agrochemicals in agriculture has increased the fre...
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The Mechanism of MADS-box Gene SlMBP3 Modulating Tomato Fruit Size
MADS-box transcription factors play important role in plant growth and development, especially floral organ identities and fruit development. In our study, a type II MADS-box gene SlMBP3 of Solanum lycopersicum M...
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Agrochemicals in Soil and Environment: Conclusions and Future Perspectives
In view of the rapidly increasing global population and frequently changing environmental conditions, it becomes imperative to produce more food to secure the food security which created tremendous pressure on...
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Plastics in the Soil Environment: An Overview
Contamination of soil by plastics is a global environmental issue. Plastics pollution has been detected and is showing a regular increase in both water and land ecosystems. There are many researches reporting ...
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Agrochemicals in Soil and Environment: An Overview
Frequently changing environmental conditions pose serious threat to the global agriculture by putting extra burden in the form of environmental insults (biotic and abiotic factors) and challenge to food securi...
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Cadmium, a Nonessential Heavy Metal: Uptake, Translocation, Signaling, Detoxification, and Impact on Amino Acid Metabolism
Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic nonessential heavy metal for higher plants, which has a long biological half-life. Based on the fact that Cd is harmful to the environment and plants, and due to the sessile nature of t...
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Artemisia annua L.: Traditional Uses, Phytochemistry, and Pharmacological Activities
Artemisia annua L. is an annual, herbaceous, aromatic medicinal plant belonging to the family Asteraceae. It is mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine as a cure for different diseases like fever, hemorrhoid, a...
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Mechanistic Insights into Strigolactone Biosynthesis, Signaling, and Regulation During Plant Growth and Development
Strigolactones (SLs) constitute a group of carotenoid-derived phytohormones with butenolide moieties. These hormones are involved in various functions, including regulation of secondary growth, shoot branching...
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Triacontanol Protects Mentha arvensis L. from Nickel-Instigated Repercussions by Escalating Antioxidant Machinery, Photosynthetic Efficiency and Maintaining Leaf Ultrastructure and Root Morphology
Nickel (Ni), an essential micronutrient and a prime component of the plant enzyme urease, has an indispensable role in plants. Triacontanol (TRIA) is a conspicuous plant growth regulator in agriculture, which ...
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Enhancing artemisinin content in and delivery from Artemisia annua: a review of alternative, classical, and transgenic approaches
This review analyses the most recent scientific research conducted for the purpose of enhancing artemisinin production. It may help to devise better artemisinin enhancement strategies, so that its production b...
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Biosynthesis of Lemongrass Essential Oil and the Underlying Mechanism for Its Insecticidal Activity
Lemongrass (Cymbopogon flexuosus) is an aromatic perennial grass grown extensively for its essential oil. Lemongrass oil is chiefly a mixture of various cyclic and acyclic bioactive monoterpenes. We reviewed lemo...
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Natural Polysaccharides: Novel Plant Growth Regulators
The recent decades have marked the applications of numerous growth promoters to meet the demands of the ever-growing population. However, their toxicity and side effects have always been a concern. This led th...
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Exogenous Gibberellic Acid Supplementation Renders Growth and Yield Protection Against Salinity Induced Oxidative Damage Through Upregulating Antioxidant Metabolism in Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graceum L.)
Gibberellic acid (GA) is a well-established group of phytohormones with growth eliciting properties. Considering the substantial damage by salt stress, we investigated whether foliar sprays of 10−6 M GA3 could re...
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Various Mitigation Approaches Applied to Confer Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum L.): A Review
Trigonella foenum graecum L. contains several nutritionally and pharmaceutically important bioactive constituents particularly trigonelline and diosgenin and imparts immense economic value to the plant making it ...
