Many crop plants are exposed to heavy metals and other metals that may intoxicate the crop plants themselves or consumers of the plants. The rhizotoxicity of heavy metals is influenced strongly by the root cell plasma membrane (PM) surface's electrical potential (ψ0). The usually negative ψ0 is created by negatively charged constituents of the PM. Cations in the rooting medium are attracted to ...

Metallothionein (MT), a metal-binding protein induced primarily by heavy metals in vertebrates, is considered a biomarker for environmental heavy-metal contamination. To investigate heavy metal pollution in the freshwater environment, MT-I and MT-II were purified from livers of crucian carp (Carassius carassius) by gel exclusion chromatography and ion exchange chromatography. To detect the puri...

Bacterial cell surface display is a widely used technology for bioadsorption and for the development of a variety of screening systems. Magnetotactic bacteria are unique species of bacteria due to the presence of magnetic nanoparticles within them. These intracellular, nanosized (50 to 100 nm) magnetic nanoparticles enable the cells to migrate and be manipulated by magnetic force. In this work,...

Sorption techniques are widely used to remove heavy metal ions from large volumes of aqueous solutions. Herein, the natural and some artificial materials, such as clay minerals, biosorbents, carbon-nanomaterials, metal oxides, are reviewed as adsorbents in the removal of different heavy metal ions, such as Ni(II), Cu(II), Pb(II), Cd(II), Cs(I), Eu(III), Th(IV), Cr(VI) from large volumes of aque...

In the past few decades, discharging thousands of organic, inorganic, and biological pollutants into environment has severely deteriorated water quality especially the heavy metals pollution which could be concentrated in organisms and, thus, harmful to most plants and animals not only at a high dose but also in relatively low concentration [1]. The continuous existence of heavy metal contamina...

the modified surface of typha latifolia l. root (mstl), as an alternative economical adsorbent, wasused for the removal of ni (ii) and cd(ii) ions from aqueous solutions. the effect of initial ph, initialconcentration of metal ion, and contact time was investigated in a batch system at room temperature.the kinetics data could be fitted well by pseudo-second-order model with correlation coeffici...