Cellular Mechanisms in Higher Plants Governing Tolerance to Cadmium Toxicity

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 374-391

  Choppala, Girish ^a,b,c   Saifullah, ^d   Bolan, Nanthi ^b,c   Bibi, Sadia ^d   Iqbal, Muhammad ^e   Rengel, Zed ^f   Kunhikrishnan, Anitha ^g   Ashwath, Nanjappa ^a   Ok, Yong Sik ^h  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c University of South Australia and CRC for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^e GOVERNMENT COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^g National Academy of Agricultural Science   (South Korea)

^h Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

cadmium; compartmentalization; metallothioneins; phytochelatins; plants; stress mitigation; toxicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901657799     PISSN: 07352689     EISSN: 15497836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07352689.2014.903747     Document Type: Article

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