Cadmium Stress and Toxicity in Plants: An Overview

By B. Shanmugaraj, Ashwini Malla, S. Ramalingam. Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants, 2019

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Abstract Heavy metal pollution has long been a major environmental problem, and threatens all living forms globally. Cadmium (Cd) is one of the nonessential, highly toxic environmental pollutants worldwide that causes deleterious effects and serious problems in agriculture. Plants growing in Cd-contaminated soil uptake the heavy metal through their roots, which accumulates in different organs, eventually reducing plant growth and productivity. Bioaccumulation of high concentrations of Cd in plants enters the food chain and affects both animals and humans. In plants, several metabolic processes are associated with Cd toxicity and its tolerance. This chapter summarizes the effects of Cd toxicity in plant growth and other related physiological and metabolic processes, including an overview of phytoremediation technologies to clean up Cd contamination in the environment.

Subfields: Plant Science

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• Cadmium stress in plants: A critical review of the effects, mechanisms, and tolerance strategies (2020, background): “…through rapid production of phytochelatins (PCs), competition for the metal transporters (e.g., Ca2þ, Mg2þ, Zn2þ, and Fe2þ), synthesis of antioxidants, and restoration of plant pigments (Choppala et al., 2014; Rizwan, Ali, Adrees et al., 2016; Shahid et al., 2019; Shanmugaraj et al., 2019).”