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Recent Advances in Understanding of Plant Responses to Excess Metals: Exposure, Accumulation, and Tolerance

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Toxicity has been the primary driver of research on excess metals; but in recent decades, the biology of metal accumulation/hyperaccumulation became the main focus of research. The main aim is to develop phytoremedial techniques for diminishing the environmental impact of metal pollution. From the toxicological point of view, only the bioavailable soil metal fractions can affect morphology and/or physiology; therefore methods for quantification of metal stress in plants are continuously evolving. Phenotypic plasticity encoded by fixed genetic components in different species determines a plant’s responses to excess metals. Metal exclusion, accumulation, and hyperaccumulation are major plant strategies when facing excess metals, with metal tolerance mechanisms as a prerequisite for coping with the metal(s) in question. Considerable research efforts are being directed into the field of biotechnology of metal hyperaccumulation, but the complexity of plant responses to excess metals makes this task extremely difficult.

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Regvar, M., Vogel-Mikuš, K. (2008). Recent Advances in Understanding of Plant Responses to Excess Metals: Exposure, Accumulation, and Tolerance. In: Khan, N.A., Singh, S., Umar, S. (eds) Sulfur Assimilation and Abiotic Stress in Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76326-0_11

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