BS ( Hons. ) Biochemostry

Plants are constantly faced with abiotic and biotic stresses. Heavy metals such as Fe, Mn, Cu, Ni, Co, Cd, Zn, Hg and arsenic are for long being accumulated in soils through industrial waste and sewage disposal. Although some of these metals are essential micronutrients responsible for many regular processes in plants; their excess however, can have detrimental effects. They are highly reactive and directly influence the plant growth, metabolism, physiology and senescence. Plants like other organisms have d