Plant Metal Interaction

Dr. Parvaiz Ahmad is Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Sri Pratap College, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, and is presently a Visiting Scientist at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He completed his post-graduate degree in Botany in 2000 at Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India. After receiving a Doctorate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, India, he joined the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi, in 2007. His main research area is Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology. He has published more than 50 research papers in peer reviewed journals, and 40 book chapters. He is also an Editor of 17 volumes (one with Studium Press Pvt. India Ltd., New Delhi, India; nine with Springer, New York; three with Elsevier USA; and four with John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.). He is a recipient of the Junior Research Fellowship and Senior Research Fellowship award, granted by CSIR, New Delhi, India. Dr. Ahmad was awarded the Young Scientist Award under the Fast Track scheme in 2007 by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. Dr. Ahmad is actively engaged in studying the molecular and physio-biochemical responses of different agricultural and horticultural plants under environmental stress.

• Section: 1. Heavy Metals: Effect and Responses in Plants1: Heavy metal stress and responses in plants2:Aluminum toxicity in plants3:Silicon and biotic stress in agricultural crop Plants: capabilities and limitations4:Chromium, Environment and Plants: A Dangerous Affair5:Copper stress and responses in plants6:Changes in crop productivity of bean plants (Vicia faba L.) in response to copper toxicity and salinity: an overview7: Behaviour of Copper in Soils. Toxicity, Sorption characteristics and Bioavaibility8:The effect of lead on plant and human DNA damages and its impact on human life9:Boron toxicity and its remediation from soil10:Brassicas and heavy metal stress: An overview11:Adaptation of higher plants to the heavy metal stress12:Detoxification of heavy metals and tolerance in plantsSection: 2. Approaches to alleviate heavy metal stress13:Heavy Metal Stress and Molecular Approaches in Plants 14:Effects of heavy metal stress on plants: insights from proteomics15:Role of phytohormones in alleviating heavy metals stress in crop plants16:Role of the gene Osmyb in the resistance to low temperatures as well as to Zn and Cu pollution17:Heavy metal stress signaling in plantsSection: 3. Microbial Approaches to remove heavy metals18:Microbial strategy for the bioremediation of heavy metal contaminated soils19:Potential of Plants and Microbes forMetal Removal: A Green Clean Approach for remediation of Soil and waste water20:Land reformation using Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria with context to heavy metal contamination21: Heavy metal stress tolerance in plants through arbuscular mycorrhiza.Section: 4. Phytoremediation: A Green Clean Technology22:Duckweed: Hyperaccumulator of heavy metals23:Plants used in phytoremediation" or : "Hyperaccumulator plants24:Transgenic plants in phytoremediation: Recent advances and future possibilities25:Higher plants suitable for remediation - samples from Central Europe26:Weed plants and uptake of heavy metals: An overview27:Phytoremediation of saline soils for sustainable agricultural productivity28:Phytoextraction, the use of plants to remove heavy metals from soils29:Phytocheletion and metallothioneins: Role in plants30:Role of glutathione and phytochelation in heavy metal stress tolerance in plants31:Selenium: uptake, toxicity, tolerance in plants and phytoremediation32:Plant metallothioneins: An approach toward heavy metal detoxification33:Mercury and its bioremediation34: Cadmium stress in plants: mode of action, defense mechanisms and tolerance. Role of higher plants in bioremediation of cadmium-contaminated soils35:Accumulation of heavy metal under different methods of irrigation by treated wastewater on corn36:Overview of the status of agricultural lands affected by long term mining activity in central Chile and remediation attempts