Chromium in the environment: factors affecting biological remediation

By A. Zayed, N. Terry. Plant and Soil, 2003

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution, Water Science and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Subcellular distribution of chromium in accumulating plant Leersia hexandra Swartz (2009, background): “2005). Due to its widespread industrial use, chromium has become a serious pollutant of soil and aquatic bodies ( Zayed and Terry 2003 ).”
• Seasonal variations of Cu, Zn, Ni and Cr concentration in Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trin ex steudel in a constructed wetland of North Italy (2009, background): “chromium (Cr), are non-essential and extremely toxic to plants even at low concentration [6,7].”
• Toxicity, mechanism and health effects of some heavy metals (2014, background): “Pollution of the environment by chromium, particularly hexavalent chromium, has been the greatest concern in recent years (Zayed & Terry, 2003).”
• Chromium as an Environmental Pollutant: Insights on Induced Plant Toxicity (2012, background): “Due to this wide anthropogenic use of Cr, the consequent environmental contamination increased and has become an increasing concern in the last years [3].”
• Effect of Ionic and chelate assisted hexavalent chromium on mung bean seedlings ( Vigna radiata L. wilczek. Var k-851) during seedling growth (2013, background): “The metal toxicity caused either by natural soil properties or by other means like agricultural practices, manufacturing, mixing and waste disposal practices creates several environmental hazards (Zayed et al. 1998; Zayed and Terry, 2003; Mohanty and Patra, 2011).”
• Indigenous microorganisms as potential bioremediators for environments contaminated with heavy metals (2012, positive): “It has also been suggested that this ion is involved in the tertiary structure of proteins and the composition of cellular RNA and DNA (Gulan Zetic et al., 2001; Zayed and Terry, 2003).”
• Phytotoxicity of Chromium on Germination, Growth and Biochemical Attributes of Hibiscus esculentus L. (2013, background): “Similar results were reported by Zayed and Terry [15].”
• Chromium toxicity in plants. (2005, background): “9 gd kg 1 in soil have been found in the vicinity of chrome production sites (Zayed and Terry, 2003).”
• Roles of osmoprotectants in improving salinity and drought tolerance in plants: a review (2015, background): “The industrial discharge of drainage water used in manufacturing of dyes, paints and pigments, and leaching effect caused by improper sanitary landfills carried a huge amount of salt, which exerts pressure on hydrosphere (Zayed and Terry 2003; Rubio et al. 2010).”
• Mechanism and Health Effects of Heavy Metal Toxicity in Humans (2019, background): “Environmental pollution by chromium has been mostly by the hexavalent chromium in recent years [17].”