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CHEMOSPHERE
Volume 283, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.131050
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Acquisition; Arsenic; Detoxification; Phytotoxicity; Speciation; Tolerance
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The absorption of arsenic in plants poses serious health risks to human beings, as high arsenic levels can disrupt plant water relations and induce oxidative bursts. Additionally, different antioxidant enzymes play a crucial role in enhancing plant tolerance to arsenic stress.
Globally, environmental contamination by potentially noxious metalloids like arsenic is becoming a critical concern to the living organisms. Arsenic is a non-essential metalloid for plants and can be acclimatised in plants to toxic levels. Arsenic acquisition by plants poses serious health risks in human due to its entry in the food chain. High arsenic regimes disturb plant water relations, promote the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and induce oxidative outburst in plants. This review evidences a conceivable tie-up among arsenic levels, speciation, its availability, uptake, acquisition, transport, phytotoxicity and arsenic detoxification in plants. The role of different antioxidant enzymes to confer plant tolerance towards the enhanced arsenic distress has also been summed up. Additionally, the mechanisms involved in the modulation of different genes coupled with arsenic tolerance have been thoroughly discussed. This review is intended to present an overview to rationalise the contemporary progressions on the recent advances in phytoremediation approaches to overcome ecosystem contamination by arsenic.
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