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Title: | Heavy metals/metalloids in food crops and their implications for human health |
Other Titles: | Heavy metal toxicity and tolerance in plants : a biological, omics, and genetic engineering approach |
Authors: | Uddin, Shihab Afroz, Hasina Hossain, Mahmud Briffa, Jessica Blundell, Renald lslam, Rafiqul |
Keywords: | Heavy metals -- Environmental aspects Soils -- Heavy metal content Food crops -- Effect of heavy metals on Heavy metals -- Absorption and adsorption Heavy metals -- Physiological effect |
Issue Date: | 2023 |
Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons |
Citation: | Uddin, S., Afroz, H., Hossain, M., Briffa, J., Blundell, R., & Islam, R. (2023). Heavy metals/metalloids in food crops and their implications for human health. In M. A, Hossain, A.K. M. Zakir Hossain, S. Bourgerie, M. Fujita, O. P. Dhankher, & P. I. Haris (Eds.), Heavy metal toxicity and tolerance in plants: a biological, omics, and genetic engineering approach (pp. 59-86). Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
Abstract: | In general, metals are elements that are hard, lustrous, fusible, malleable, ductile, and have good electrical and thermal conductivity. An element without the characteristics of a metal is referred to as a nonmetal. An element with properties halfway between those of metals and nonmetals is said to be a metalloid. Heavy metals are ubiquitous and naturally occurring elements that cannot be degraded or destroyed. Heavy metals and/or metalloids are generally referred to any naturally occurring metallic chemical element having an atomic number greater than 20, a relatively high atomic weight in the range of 63.5-200.6 g mo1-1 and the density at least five times of water (5gcm-3) (Koller and Saleh 2018). Heavy metals and/or metalloids include arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), chromium (Cr), thallium (TI), lead (Pb), aluminum (Al), etc. Heavy metals can be broadly classified into two categories: essential and nonessential. Essential heavy metals are required by living organisms for carrying out fundamental processes viz. growth, metabolism, and development of different organs. [Excerpt from the Introduction] |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/112692 |
ISBN: | 9781119906483 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacM&SPB |
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