Metal Toxicity in Plants: Perception, Signaling and Remediation

Heavy Metal Bindings and Its Interactions with Thiol Peptides and Other Biological Ligands in Plant Cells.- Heavy Metal Perception in a Microescale Environment: A Model System Using High Doses of Pollutants.- Genetic and Molecular Aspects of Metal Tolerance and Hyperaccumulation.- Cadmium and Copper Stress Induce a Cellular Oxidative Challenge Leading to Damage Versus Signaling.- Insights into Cd Toxicity: Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species Function.- Exploring the Plant Response to Cadmium Exposure by Transcriptomic, Proteomic and Metabolomic Approaches: Potentiality of High-Throughput Methods, Promises of Integrated Biology.- Proteomics as a Toolbox to Study the Metabolic Adjustment of Trees During Exposure to Metal Trace Elements.- Proteomics of Plant Hyperaccumulators.- Heavy Metal Toxicity-Oxidative Stress Parameters and DNA Repair.- Protein Oxidative Modifications.- Zn/Cd/Co/Pb P1B-ATPases in Plants, Physiological Roles and Biological Interest.- Interference of Heavy Metals Toxicity with Auxin Physiology.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642220800
• ISBN13: 9783642220807
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"