Metals, Metalloids, Metal-Based Nanoparticles – Effects, Responses and Novel Technologies
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Response to Abiotic Stress and Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 6763
Special Issue Editors
Interests: plant antioxidative status; abiotic stress; heavy metals; metalloids; biofortification
Interests: aquatic and terrestrial ecology; oxidative stress; medicinal and edible plants; phytobenthos; grasslands
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Various anthropogenic activities such as industrialization, urbanization, and agriculture release different contaminants that lead to the pollution of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Heavy metals, metalloids, and metal nanoparticles have been recognized as an important threat for the soil, water, sediments, as well as for terrestrial and aquatic biota. These contaminants can be extremely toxic for plants and algae by negatively affecting their growth and development as well as their biochemical and antioxidative status. They can interfere with electron transport chains and/or facilitate reactive oxygen species production, resulting in nucleic acid damage, lipid peroxidation, protein oxidation, and disruption of cell membranes. Generally, plants and algae have evolved different strategies to overcome the harmful effects of these pollutants. This Special Issue will focus on biochemical and molecular strategies of plants and algae for coping with excess metals, metalloids, and metal nanoparticles in soil and water, different molecular approaches to enhance their response to metal stress, and the potential of plants and algae in phytoremediation as well as the application of novel technologies for the synthesis of various metal-based nanoparticles.
Dr. Ivna Štolfa
Dr. Tanja Žuna Pfeiffer
Dr. Martina Varga
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heavy metals
- metalloids
- metal nanoparticles
- antioxidative responses
- physiological effects
- phytoremediation
- green nanotechnology
