Sanskriti Vats, Sreeja Sudhakaran, Anupriya Bhardwaj, Rushil Mandlik, Yogesh Sharma, Sudhir Kumar, Durgesh Kumar Tripathi, Humira Sonah, Tilakraj Sharma, Rupesh Deshmukh
Uptake of hazardous metal(loid)s adversely affects plants and imposes a threat to the entire food chain. Here, the role of aquaporins (AQPs) providing tolerance against hazardous metal(loid)s in plants is discussed to provide a perspective on the present understanding, knowledge gaps, and opportunities. Plants adopt complex molecular and physiological mechanisms for better tolerance, adaptability, and survival under metal(loid)s stress. Water conservation in plants is one such primary strategies regulated by AQPs, a family of channel-forming proteins facilitating the transport of water and many other solutes...
December 20, 2020: Journal of Hazardous Materials