Abstract
Plant science research may help to reduce the potential exposure of people to environmental arsenic pollution. In particular, arsenic phytoremediation and development of low arsenic accumulating plants are two main research foci that hold much promise in helping to tackle the arsenic pollution problem. Plant tissue culture has been useful to aid arsenic toxicity and resistance studies in the laboratory which could better inform phytoremediation studies, for example, involving the arsenic hyperaccumulating Pteris vittata (Chinese brake fern). Transfer of arsenic metabolism-related glutaredoxin genes, for example, has been shown to reduce arsenic accumulation in transgenic plants. In vitro plant cell selection may be, however, an attractive alternative to generation of transgenic plants to yield low arsenic accumulating crop plants (somaclonal variants) aiming to lower dietary arsenic intake.
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Leung, D.W.M. (2017). Potential of Plant Tissue Culture Research Contributing to Combating Arsenic Pollution. In: Gupta, D., Chatterjee, S. (eds) Arsenic Contamination in the Environment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54356-7_9
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