Arsenic in Rice (eBook, PDF)

A Global Menace
Redaktion: Awasthi, Garima; Sankhla, Mahipal Singh; Srivastava, Sudhakar

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Addresses the arsenic-rice problem, with effective mitigation strategies. It reviews long-distance translocation, arsenic-induced phytotoxicity, economic measures to reduce arsenic load, and techniques that are agronomically and environmentally safe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000906813
• Artikelnr.: 69600091

Autorenporträt

Garima Awasthi, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Vivekananda Global University, Rajasthan, India. She has published nearly 50 scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals on heavy metal stress in plants, mainly on arsenic problems in rice, which have been widely cited. Her research focuses on plant abiotic and biotic stress, nanotechnology, plant physiology, and proteomics. She has collaborated with various educational institutions and research centers as well as with the industrial sector. Sudhakar Srivastava, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Uttar Pradesh, India. He was formerly a Scientific Officer at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. With nearly 20 years of research experience in plant-metal interactions, he has published over 125 research and review articles, published 25 book chapters and edited three books. Dr. Srivastava is also a Fellow of the Indian Society of Environmental Botanists, Lucknow, India. Mahipal Singh Sankhla is an Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Science at the University Centre for Research and Development at Chandigarh University, Punjab, India. He previously served as an Assistant Professor at Vivekananda Global University in Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Rajasthan. He has done training at the Forensic Science Laboratory, Lucknow; Central Forensic Science Laboratory, New Delhi; Codon Institute of Biotechnology Noida; and Rajasthan State Mines & Minerals Limited, Udaipur, India. He has published books, book chapters, and over 160 research and review papers, and has organized and presented at many national and international conferences, workshops, and faculty development programs.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Arsenic in Rice in a Nutshell: Tell-Tale Toxic Interplay of Chemical
Offense and Biochemical Defense 2. Status of Arsenic Contamination in Paddy
Fields: Soil-Water Chemistry 3. Rhizospheric Physiology of Rice Plants
Towards Arsenic 4. Long-Distance Translocation Mechanism of Arsenic from
Soil to Rice Grain 5. Arsenic-Induced Phytotoxicity in Rice Plants 6.
Translocation and Accumulation of Arsenic in Rice Grains: Role of
Transporters in Tolerance and Their Incorporation in the Food Chain 7.
Agronomic Measures to Lessen Arsenic in Rice 8. Biotechnology and
Nanotechnology for Reducing the Arsenic Toxicity in Rice 9.
Microbial-Mediated Measures to Regulate Arsenic in Rice 10. The
Determination and Speciation of Arsenic in Rice