Advances in "Omics" Approaches for Improving Toxic Metals/Metalloids Tolerance in Plants.

ABSTRACT: Food safety has emerged as a high-urgency matter for sustainable agricultural production. Toxic metal contamination of soil and water significantly affects agricultural productivity, which is further aggravated by extreme anthropogenic activities and modern agricultural practices, leaving food safety and human health at risk. In addition to reducing crop production, increased metals/metalloids toxicity also disturbs plants' demand and supply equilibrium. Counterbalancing toxic metals/metalloids toxicity demands a better understanding of the complex mechanisms at physiological, biochemical, molecular, cellular, and plant level that may result in increased crop productivity. Consequently, plants have established different internal defense mechanisms to cope with the adverse effects of toxic

SUBMITTER: Raza A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8764127 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature