Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Heavy Metal Pollution: Effect on Plants and Food
(Shevtsova Tetiana, Taran Nataliya and Sytar Oksana, ,Slovak Agricultural University in Nitra, Nitra, Slovak Republic, and others)
Chapter 2. Antioxidant System and Plant Cross-Adaptation against Metal Excess and Other Environmental Stressors
(Yuriy E. Kolupaev, Yuriy V. Karpets, Tetiana O. Yastreb, Sergiy A. Shemet and Renu Bhardwaj, Dokuchaev Kharkiv National Agrarian University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, and others)
Chapter 3. Metal/Metalloid-Induced Accumulation of Phenolic Compounds in Plants
(Volodymyr S. Fedenko, Sergiy A. Shemet, Lucia Guidi and Marco Landi, Research Institute of Chemistry and Geology, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Dnipro, Ukraine, and others)
Chapter 4. Role of Plant Growth Regulators in Ameliorating Heavy Metal Caused Oxidative Stress in Plants: An Update
(Anket Sharma, Vinod Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Sukhmeen Kaur Kohli, Poonam Yadav, Dhriti Kapoor, Ekhlaque A. Khan, Ripu Daman Parihar, Babar Shahzad, Ashwani Kumar Thukral and Renu Bhardwaj, Plant Stress Physiology Lab, Department of Botanical and Environmental Sciences, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India, and others)
Chapter 5. Plant Response to Excess of Copper in Soils: A Review
(Chandana Chandrasekhar and Joseph George Ray, Laboratory of Ecology and Eco-technology, School of Biosciences, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India)
Chapter 6. The Phytotoxic Effects of Lead, Cadmium and Sodium Chloride on the Morphological and Physiological Characteristics of Ornamental Herbaceous Plants
(Valentyna Bessonova, Olena Dzhygan, Olga Ivanchenko and Olena Ponomareva, Department of landscape gardening, Dnipro State Agrarian and Economic University, Dnipro, Ukraine)
Chapter 7. Olea europaea L. (Cv. ‘Kalamon’): A Tolerant Tree Species to Mn Toxicity
(Theocharis Chatzistathis and Ioannis E. Papadakis, Institute of Soil and Water Resources, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “Demeter”, Thessaloniki, Greece, and others)
Chapter 8. Determination of Metal Content in Two Genotypes of Cannabis sativa L. Under Different Environmental Conditions Through ICP-MS Analysis
(Оlga І. Rudnyk-Ivashchenko, Viktor M. Kabanets, Liudmyla М. Mykhalska and Victor V. Schwartau, Institute of Horticulture of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, and others)
Chapter 9. Effects of Excess Manganese on Growth, Mineral Nutrition, Carbohydrates, Malondialdehyde, Hydrogen Peroxide and Proline of Citrus Plants
(Ioannis E. Papadakis, Theocharis Chatzistathis, Anastasia Giannakoula, Thomas Sotiropoulos, Chrysovalantou Antonopoulou and Ioannis Therios, Laboratory of Pomology, Department of Crop Science, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos, Athens, Greece, and others)
Index
Audience
This book will provide a comprehensive overview regarding some aspects of metal toxicity in plan useful for scientist working in this field of research, but it will also be of practical interest to environmentalists, policy-makers, and resource managers working on the topic.
