Heavy metal phytotoxicity has been known for more than a century. Therefore, it is astonishing that interest in the effects of heavy metals on organisms has been aroused only recently. Research in the past years, however, has confirmed the immense damage by metal pollution to plants, the soil and ultimately to humans. This revised and updated second edition gives a state-of-the art review on both field and laboratory work. It deals with the various functional and ecological aspects of heavy metal stress on plants and outlines the scope for future research and the possibilities for remediation.

Metal Availability, Uptake, Transport and Accumulation in Plants – M. Greger / Metal Speciation, Chelation and Complexing Ligands in Plants – A. Pohlmeier / Metallothioneins, Metal Binding Complexes and Metal Sequestration in Plants – M N V Prasad / Heavy Metal Induced Oxidative Damage in Terrestrial Plants – B P Shaw et al / Membrane Lipid Alterations in Heavy Metal Exposed Plants – S. Rama Devi et al / Photosynthesis in Heavy Metal Stressed Plants – B. Myliwa-Kurdziel et. al / Plant Mitochondrial Respiration Under the Influence of Heavy Metals – R. Losch / Ecophysiology of Plant Growth Under Heavy Metal Stress – J. Hagemeyer / Structural and Ultrastructural Changes in Heavy Metal Exposed Plants – J. Barcelo et. al / Water Relations in Heavy Metal Stressed Plants – Ch. Poschenrieder et.al / Heavy Metals as Essential Nutrients – Z. Rengel / Metal Pollution and Forest Decline – A. Huttermann et. al. / Root and Rhizosphere Processes in Metal Hyperaccumulation and Phytoremediation Technology – W W Wenzel et al / Phytoremediation of Metals and Radionuclides in the Environment: The Case for Natural Hyperaccumulators, Metal Transporters, Soil-Amending Chelators and Transgenic Plants – M N V Prased / Metal Removal from Sewage Sludge: Bioengineering and Biotechnologcial Applications – T R Sreekrishnan et. al / Species-selective Analysis for Metals and Metalloids in Plants – D. Schaumloffel et.al / Experimental Charactersation of Metal Tolerance – K I Kohl et. al.

Graduate and Researchers in the field of Environmental Biotechnology, Toxicology, Metal Contaminated Solis, Soil Sciences and Biogeochemical Prospecting, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, Phytormediation, Plant Ecophysiology, Geobotany