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Almeida,Alex-Alan F. de; Valle,Raúl R.; Mielke,Marcelo S.; Gomes,Fábio P.. |
High concentrations of Cd, Pb, Cu and Cr can cause harmful effects to the environment. These highly toxic pollutants constitute a risk for aquatic and terrestrial life. They are associated with diverse bioavailable geochemical fractions, like the water-soluble fraction and the exchangeable fraction, and non-available fractions like those associated with the crystalline net of clays and silica minerals. Depending upon their chemical and physical properties we can distinguish different mechanisms of metal toxicity in plants, such as production of reactive oxygen species from auto-oxidation, blocking and/or displacement of essential functional groups or metallic ions of biomolecules, changes in the permeability of cellular membranes, reactions of sulphydryl... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Decontamination; Heavy metals; Hyperaccumulation; Phytodegradation; Phytostabilization; Phytotoxicity. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1677-04202007000200001 |
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