Plant Metallomics and Functional Omics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Energy Crop at Heavy Metal-Contaminated Arable Land as an Alternative for Food and Feed Production: Biomass Quantity and Quality

   • Marta Pogrzeba, Jacek Krzyżak, Szymon Rusinowski, Jon Paul McCalmont, Elaine Jensen

   Pages 1-21

3. Systems Biology of Metal Tolerance in Plants: A Case Study on the Effects of Cd Exposure on Two Model Plants

   • Annelie Gutsch, Stéphanie Vandionant, Kjell Sergeant, Marijke Jozefczak, Jaco Vangronsveld, Jean-François Hausman et al.

   Pages 23-37

4. One for All and All for One! Increased Plant Heavy Metal Tolerance by Growth-Promoting Microbes: A Metabolomics Standpoint

   • Roberto Berni, Gea Guerriero, Giampiero Cai

   Pages 39-54

5. Genomics and Physiological Evidence of Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants

   • Salwa Harzalli Jebara, Imen Challougui Fatnassi, Manel Chiboub, Omar Saadani, Souhir Abdelkrim, Khedhiri Mannai et al.

   Pages 55-69

6. Redox Mechanisms and Plant Tolerance Under Heavy Metal Stress: Genes and Regulatory Networks

   • Muhammad Shahid, Natasha, Sana Khalid, Ghulam Abbas, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Behzad Murtaza et al.

   Pages 71-105

7. System Biology of Metal Tolerance in Plants: An Integrated View of Genomics, Transcriptomics, Metabolomics, and Phenomics

   • Noreen Khalid, Muhammad Aqeel, Ali Noman

   Pages 107-144

8. Crosstalk Between Plant miRNA and Heavy Metal Toxicity

   • Ali Noman, Tayyaba Sanaullah, Noreen Khalid, Waqar Islam, Shahbaz Khan, Muhammad Kashif Irshad et al.

   Pages 145-168

9. Recent Advances in 2D Imaging of Element Distribution in Plants by Focused Beam Techniques

   • Katarina Vogel-Mikuš, Johannes Teun van Elteren, Marjana Regvar, Jitrin Chaiprapa, Boštjan Jenčič, Iztok Arčon et al.

   Pages 169-207

10. As, Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg: Physiological Implications and Toxicity in Plants

    • Mario Franić, Vlatko Galić

    Pages 209-251

11. Heavy Metal Toxicity: Physiological Implications of Metal Toxicity in Plants

    • Eugeniusz Małkowski, Krzysztof Sitko, Paulina Zieleźnik-Rusinowska, Żaneta Gieroń, Michał Szopiński

    Pages 253-301

12. Impact of Heavy Metals on Non-food Herbaceous Crops and Prophylactic Role of Si

    • Marie Luyckx, Roberto Berni, Giampiero Cai, Stanley Lutts, Gea Guerriero

    Pages 303-321

13. Back Matter

    Pages 323-332

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Major portion of the planet earth is covered by seas and oceans representing 96.5% of the planet’s water, playing a detrimental role in sustaining the plant including crop diversity and productivity for human consumption. Water resources contain both soluble and transition metals, which are easily absorbed by plants through roots as a first point of contact and subsequently play important physiological and biological functions in plants. Transition metals such as copper (Cu), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn) and zinc (Zn) contribute to the plant productivity by playing key functional roles in the photosynthesis. In addition, to their major role in regulating the plant productivity, they also play an important role by acting as homeostatic regulators in uni-parentally inherited chloroplasts and maintains the flow of the electron transfer. It is worthwhile to mention that they play a critical role as transporters, which acts as electron balancing units for managing the electrostatic potential across the membranes. In contrast, some metals such as Cd, As play a significant role in inducing the stress mechanism and influencing either directly or in-directly Haber-Weiss reactions either through the production of the reactive oxygen species (ROS) or through the membrane damage thus leading to leakage of membrane transporters. However, besides playing a detrimental role as transporters in plant system, excessive accumulation of these metals due to the increasing contamination in the marginal soil and water are posing important threats to the plant system. Realizing the toxic effects of the metals, several physiological evidences have been laid for the credence of the metal toxicity and their concurrent effect on plant productivity. Increasing effects of the metals as toxicants can have three adverse effects on the populations: population can move, persist via local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity, or die. Next generation sequencing studies have revolutionized our abilities todetect the changes in expression profiles across an array of genes, which can in-turn help to develop early markers of metal induced stress. Plant Metallomics and Functional Omics: A System-Wide Perspective focuses on the applications of the system wide understanding of the biological and functional interplay occurring at the juncture of the metalloid induced stress and toxicity. The main goal of this book is to familiarize the readers with the most up-to-date information on metal-induced physiological changes in plant species. 

• Transition Metals
• Functional Omics
• System Biology
• Metal Tolerance
• Metalloid
• Stress Biology

• University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

  Gaurav Sablok

Gaurav Sablok works as Post-doctoral Researcher at Finnish Museum of Natural History and OEB Research Programme, University of Helsinki, Finland

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