Cadmium Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants

Dr. Mirza Hasanuzzaman is Professor of Agronomy at Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University in Dhaka. He is a specialist in agronomy, plant stress responses, and crop physiology. His current work is focused on the physiological and molecular mechanisms of environmental stress tolerance (salinity, drought, flood, and heavy metals/metalloids). Dr. Hasanuzzaman has published over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has edited six books and written 30 book chapters on important aspects of plant physiology, plant stress tolerance, and crop production. Dr. Masayuki Fujita is a Professor in the Department of Plant Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University, Kagawa, Japan. He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, and his M.Agr. and Ph.D. in Plant Biochemistry from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. His research interests include physiological, biochemical and molecular biological responses based on secondary metabolism in plants under biotic (pathogenic fungal infection) and abiotic (salinity, drought, extreme temperatures and heavy metals) stresses; phytoalexin, cytochrome P-450, glutathione S-transferase, phytochelatin and redox reaction and antioxidants. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications and has multiple books. Dr. Prasad is Emeritus Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hyderabad (India). He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of bioremediation, bioresources, biomass energy sources, bioeconomy, and to the broad field of environmental biotechnology, all of which are his main areas of expertise. Dr. Prasad has served the Government of India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change as a member of various advisory committees on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, pollution control and abatement, environmental information systems and bioremediation of contaminated sites. He is an active visiting scientist for several international universities.

• 1. Cadmium toxicity and tolerance in plants – An Overview2. Cadmium toxicity and tolerance in vascular plants - Micro- and phytobiome approach3. Morphological and physiological responses of plants to cadmium toxicity4. Adaptive and tolerance mechanisms in herbaceous plants exposed to cadmium5. Cadmium-induced anatomical abnormalities in plants6. Cadmium contamination in water and soil7. Environmental hazards of cadmium: Past, present and future8. Role of phytochelatins in cadmium stress tolerance9. Cadmium-induced oxidative stress in plants10. Cadmium-induced oxidative and nitrosative stress in plants11. Damage and protection of the photosynthetic apparatus under cadmium stress12. Cadmium-induced imbalance in nutrient and water uptake in plants13. The effect of Cd stress in mineral nutrient and water uptake14. Role of Salicylic acid in mitigating cadmium toxicity in plants15. Mitigating cadmium toxicity in plants by phytohormones16. Use of fungi in mitigating cadmium toxicity in plants17. Microbe-mediated mitigation of cadmium toxicity in plants18. Use of Solanum nigrum as a potential hyper-accumulator to remediate cadmium contaminated soils19. Phytoremediation of cadmium contaminated soils by using Sulla coronaria inoculated by efficient and cadmium resistant plant growth promoting bacteria20. Phytoremediation of cadmium polluted water/sediment by aquatic macrophytes; role of plant-induced pH changes21. Phytoremediation of cadmium contaminated soils and water22. Aquatic macrophytes for the remediation of cadmium contaminated sites