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Adaptation Strategies of Plants Against Common Inorganic Pollutants and Metals

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Plant Adaptation Strategies in Changing Environment

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One of the most distress environmental issues of the recent decades is the burden of pollution in soil and water. Till date, the quality of water and soil has been degraded as a result of excess inputs of toxic metals and several other inorganic pollutants through many anthropogenic activities like agricultural runoff, sewage, and industrial waste disposals. There are so many problems associated with inorganic contamination in soil which directly or indirectly affects plant health. When the consequences of inorganic contaminants are lethal, plants may die out, while the sublethal effects are more precarious, as the surviving plants and animals can accumulate some of the pollutants in their body parts giving rise to biomagnification. In order to cope with the toxicity caused by inorganic pollutants like metal and metalloids, plant has developed a number of adaptation strategies. Adaptive strategies developed by plants against the inorganic contaminants comprise antioxidant defense system, metal complexation at cell wall plasma membrane, sequestration within vacuoles, induction of stress proteins, chelation and sequestration through specific ligands, etc.

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Kumar, D., Kumar, S., Shukla, V., Kumar, N. (2017). Adaptation Strategies of Plants Against Common Inorganic Pollutants and Metals. In: Shukla, V., Kumar, S., Kumar, N. (eds) Plant Adaptation Strategies in Changing Environment. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6744-0_13

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