Heavy Metal Stress Resilience in Plants

Chandra Shekhar Seth is an associate professor at the Department of Botany, University of Delhi, New Delhi, in India. He currently teaches courses on plant physiology and biochemistry, plant physiology and biochemistry, algae, and phytohormones assisted abiotic stress management in plants, among others. His major research interests include how various phytohormones – particularly salicyclic acid (SA), jasmonic acid (JA), and nitric oxide (NO) mitigate the heavy metals (HMs) and salinity induce toxicity in plants, photosynthesis, and nitrogen metabolism under abiotic stress, and the role of nanomaterials in mitigating HMs and salt stresses in plants. He is a fellow of two prestigious societies in India, namely Fellow of the Academy of Environmental Biology (FAEB) Lucknow (U.P.), and Fellow Society for Plant Research (FSPR) Meerut, UP. Dr. Seth has published numerous peer reviewed research papers, review papers, and several books and book chapters related to this field. Shivendra V. Sahi is a leading researcher in plant-mediated synthesis of nanoparticles, phytoremediation, and gene expression in plants. His main research interest is in the area of Nano-biotechnology. Currently, Dr. Sahi is a professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, USA. He has published many peer-reviewed articles, presented at various conferences, and received many research awards. Dr. Sahi has received more than $ 4 million in grant funding. He has mentored many postdocs, technicians, and graduate and undergraduate students. Aside from being an innovator and research enthusiast, Dr. Sahi still enjoys teaching and mentoring many students. He continues to amaze the scientific world with his motivation and dedication to developing cutting-edge research in Nano-biotechnology.Krishan K. Verma is working a foreign expert at Sugarcane Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanning, Guangxi, China. He has 13 years of research experience in the field of biotic and abiotic stresses, i.e., environmental toxicology, plant-molecular biology, and metallic nanoparticles. His research focuses on environmental toxicology, bio-engineering modeling, plant physiology, molecular biology, their impacts on growth, physiological and molecular adaptation strategies of plants to unfavorable environmental situations, and how they affect plant structure and productivity. He has published more than 95 scientific research articles and reviews, 10 books, and 12 book chapters. He serves as an editorial board member of various peer reviewed journals.Mukesh Meena is an assistant professor at the Department of Botany at Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur, Rajasthan, in India. His areas of research and work expertise are; plant-microbial interactions, fungal biology, toxic metabolites, plant-pathogen interaction, plant growth promoting microbes, fungal bio-molecules, induced resistance, programmed cell death, biological control, rhizobacteria, environment, heavy metal stress, and molecular markers. He has been honored with several fellowship awards in his career including Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship (RGNF), UGC Research Fellowship in Science. He has authored several research articles related to isolation and characterization of fungal toxins, applications of fungal glucose oxidase, fungal toxins, production and technological applications of enzymes from microbial sources, beneficial microbes for disease suppression and plant growth promotion. He has published more than 80 peer reviewed international publications and more than 45 book chapters. He has also published three books with international publishers.

• Section A: Mechanisms for remediation, toxicity, tolerance, and detoxification of heavy metals in plant1. Navigating the uptake and transportation of heavy metals in plants2. Accumulators, hyperaccumulators, and applications of natural and synthetic chelating agents for heavy metals phytoremediation3. The vaults of resilience: sequestration and accumulation of heavy metals in plants4. Heavy metals: sources of contamination, mechanisms of toxicity and genotoxic consequences in plants5. Role of glutathione and phytochelatins under heavy metals stress and detoxification mechanisms in plants6. Heavy metals stress and their orchestration of plant physiology7. Role of mycorrhiza for improving the heavy metals tolerance strategy in plants8. Recent advancement in heavy metals phytoremediation technology9. Pathways to resilience: signaling cascade in response to heavy metals stress in plantsSection B: Phytohormones signaling and mechanisms to mitigate the heavy metals stress in plants10. Seed priming with phytohormones: an effective approach for mitigation of heavy metals stress11. Role of phytohormones in enhancing heavy metals stress tolerance in plants12. Phytohormone signaling in response to heavy metals stress13. Brassinosteroids, the sixth class of phytohormones: from discovery to hormonal interactions in plant development and stress adaption under heavy metals stress14. Molecular mechanism of salicylic acid-induced heavy metals stress tolerance in plants15. Jasmonates in plants under heavy metals stress: crosstalk with other phytohormones matters16. Phytohormones and their metabolic engineering for heavy metals stress tolerance in plantsSection C: Nanotechnology approach in mitigating risk of heavy metals stress17. Nanoparticles: green and chemical synthesis, properties, applications, and mitigation of heavy metals stress in plants18. Role of various metallic nanoparticles for effective phytoremediation of heavy metals19. Role of Si nanoparticles in mitigation of various heavy metals stress in plants20. Role of Ca nanoparticles in mitigation of various heavy metals stress in plants21. Role of TiO2 nanoparticles in mitigation of various heavy metals stress in plants22. Role of Ce nanoparticles in mitigation of various heavy metals stress in plants23. Role of Ag nanoparticles in mitigation of various heavy metals stress in plants24. Signaling mechanism(s) of various metallic nanoparticles in plants under heavy metals stress25. Mode of action of nanoparticles under heavy metals stress: uptake and translocation mechanisms of various metallic NPs in plants26. Nanoparticles: An emerging soil crops savior under heavy metals stress