Heavy Metal Stress Resilience in Plants: Phytohormones and Nanomaterials Interactions

Heavy Metal Stress Resilience in Plants: Phytohormones and Nanomaterials provides comprehensive coverage of recent advancements about heavy metals (HMs) transport and stress, phytoremediation mechanisms, and how phytohormones and nanomaterials effectively mitigate the HMs stress in plants. It addresses the consequences of HM to plants, and presents the various approaches to mitigating those consequences. As the environment is increasingly impacted by human input, both intentionally and unintentionally, plant life of all kinds faces increasing challenges to achieving optimal health and production. This book highlights the responsive changes that have increased the genetic diversity of plants and how those changes affect HMs transport in plants. Other key features of the book are coverage of metal toxicity and detoxification mechanism, biochemical tools toward HMs remediation processes, molecular mechanism for HMs detoxification, and role of ROS metabolism in alleviation of HMs. Edited and authored by leading experts from around the world, the book covers the core aspects of plant physio-biochemical and molecular responses into heavy metals stress. Phytohormones and nanomaterials as well as innovative strategies for augmenting plant growth, development and productivity/quality through intrinsic and extrinsic manipulations are included.