Plants and Heavy Metals

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Furini, Antonella (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science,
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Biotechnology.; Plant biochemistry.; Ecotoxicology.; Plant Biochemistry.

This title focuses on the many aspects of the interaction between plants and heavy metals. Not only it describes the effects of heavy metal toxicity on the plant cell and its organs but it also examines the mechanisms that plants adopt to scavenge heavy metals at cellular, physiological, and metabol...