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Download or read book Plants and Heavy Metals written by Antonella Furini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title focuses on the many aspects of the interaction between plants and heavy metals. Not only it describes the effects of heavy metal toxicity on the plant cell and its organs but it also examines the mechanisms that plants adopt to scavenge heavy metals at cellular, physiological, and metabolic level. Plants and Heavy Metals also analyses Hyperaccumulator plants and shows their potential role in phytoremediation technologies in light of the recent research results.