Book

Description

This book is composed with articles focused on the arsenic and other toxic elements with their toxic effects on crop plants and how to mitigate by implementing different agronomic practices. Arsenic is such a natural toxic element which can cause severe health issues in consumers coming from contaminated crops and vegetables. Soil and groundwater are the natural source of this arsenic which further gets transferred to the plant systems via different transporter proteins following some molecular mechanisms in plant cells. These processes of arsenic translocation in cereals like rice and wheat has been described in details with molecular reasoning. It has been established that the soil physico-chemical parameters can influence the arsenic mobility and bioavailability to the plant systems. The water management practices for crop cultivation can also influence elements that shows structural similarity towards arsenic and soil microbial community governing a variable arsenic concentration in the soil strata. Along with the soil microbial community which can crucially alter the total elemental availability in the soil, plants also play a role in remediation processes. Phytoremediation is an eco-friendly approach to reduce the toxic load in soil-to associated plant systems. The book considered article on phytoremediation strategies in the urban areas to address the urban clean-up goals.