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Metal Nanoparticle Implication, Transport, and Detection in Plants
Widespread dispersion of metal nanoparticles into the environment is mainly due to their applications in various industries. Due to the excessive...
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The Role of ABC Transporters in Metal Transport in Plants
The metal ions are very essential for the survival, being an important part of many biological processes; however excess of metals causes toxicity....
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The Mosaic Landscape of Algal Metal Transport and Usage
Like all other eukaryotes, metal ions are essential nutrients for algae, which must be assimilated from the environment. At the same time, in excess,...
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Plant Metal Tolerance Proteins: Insight into Their Roles in Metal Transport and Homeostasis for Future Biotechnological Applications
Similar to all living organisms, plants require appropriate supplies of metal micronutrients for their normal metabolism, growth, and development....
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Natural Resistance-Associated Macrophage Proteins (NRAMPs): Functional Significance of Metal Transport in Plants
In plants, there are several families of metal transporters that play an important role in metal uptake and sequestration, thus protecting the plant...
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Role of Heavy Metal ATPases in Transport of Cadmium and Zinc in Plants
Anthropogenic causes have led to a constant increase in heavy metal concentration in soil. Cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), nickel (Ni), cobalt...
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Microbes in High Salt and Metal Contamination
Environmental pollution with toxic metals poses a problem of global concern. Soluble, bioavailable metal ions concomitantly increase the osmotic...
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Trace metal elements: a bridge between host and intestinal microorganisms
Trace metal elements, such as iron, copper, manganese, and zinc, are essential nutrients for biological processes. Although their intake demand is...
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Genome-wide identification of heavy-metal ATPases genes in Areca catechu: investigating their functionality under heavy metal exposure
Heavy-metal ATPases (HMAs) play a vital role in plants, hel** to transport heavy metal ions across cell membranes.However, insufficient data exists...
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Crop Responses to Metal Toxicity
Sustainable crop production is the key to global food security. With progress in industrialization, threats of pollution have increased, and one of...
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Cadmium transport by mammalian ATP-binding cassette transporters
Cellular responses to toxic metals depend on metal accessibility to intracellular targets, reaching interaction sites, and the intracellular metal...
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Deciphering the functional roles of transporter proteins in subcellular metal transportation of plants
Main conclusionThe role of transporters in subcellular metal transport is of great significance for plants in co** with heavy metal stress and...
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Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Homeostasis and Resistance in Plants
This chapter provides an analysis of the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying plants’ ability to tolerate heavy metals. Recent research...
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Heavy Metal Remediation by Nanotechnology
Heavy metal extraction from the earth leads to contamination in water bodies. Through water heavy metals are absorbed by living organisms. Beyond a...
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Genome-wide identification and expression profile analysis of metal tolerance protein gene family in Eucalyptus grandis under metal stresses
Metal tolerance proteins (MTPs) as Me 2+ /H + (K + ) antiporters participate in the transport of divalent cations, leading to heavy metal stress resistance...
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Metallophilic, Metal-Resistant, and Metal-Tolerant Microorganisms
Metals are found in high concentration around metal processing industries or in dum** sites. The microorganisms present in such metal-rich...
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Leaf chlorophyll fluorescence and reflectance of oakleaf lettuce exposed to metal and metal(oid) oxide nanoparticles
BackgroundMost nanoparticles (NPs) have a significant impact on the structure and function of the plant photosynthetic apparatus. However, their...
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Genome-wide identification of NRAMP family genes in Populus trichocarpa and their roles in transport of heavy metals
The NRAMP (natural resistance–associated macrophage protein) gene family is a group of metal ion transmembrane transporters widely found in animals...
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Structure and Function of Heavy Metal Transporting ATPases in Brassica Species
Heavy metal pollution adversely affects soil ecology, agricultural production, and groundwater quality and ultimately harms the health of living...
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An Overview of Metal and Metalloid Toxicity and Signaling in Plants
Anthropogenic factors are mostly to blame for the rising incidences of metal and metalloid toxicity in the world. Given that it has an effect on the...