Access state-of-the-art research about trace element contamination and its impact on human health in Trace Elements as Contaminants and Nutrients: Consequences in Ecosystems and Human Health. In this ground-breaking guide, find exhaustive evidence of trace element contamination in the environment with topics like the functions and essentiality of trace metals, bioavailability and uptake biochemistry, membrane biochemistry and transport mechanisms, and enzymology. Find case studies that will reinforce the fundamentals of mineral nutrition in plants and animals and current information about fortified foods and nutrient deficiencies.
Innehållsförteckning
1. The Biological System of Elements: (Trace) Element Concentration
Abundance.
2. Trace elements contamination and availability: human health
implications implications of food chain and biofortification.
3. Trace elements in agro-ecosystems.
4. Metal accumulate on in crops- human health ssues.
5. Trace elements and plant secondary metabolism: quality and
efficacy of herbal products.
6. Trace elements and radionuclides in edible plants.
7. Trace elements in traditional healing plants – remedies or
risks.
8. Biofortification: nutritional security and relevance to human
helath.
9. Zinc for human health and sustainable development.
10. Zinc effect on the phytoestrogen content of pomegranate
fruit tree.
11. Iron bioavailability and homeostasis through phytoferritins:
fortification and intervention strategic approaches for human
health and nutrition.
12. Iodine and health: A review of Bhutan’s Iodine
Fortification programme.
13. Radionuclide contamination at Kazakhstan’s
Semipalatinsk Test Site: consequences for ecosystems and human
health.
14. Uranium and thorium bioaccumulation in cultivated
plants.
15. Mercuy – Inorganic and organic forms, environmental fate and
toxicity.
16. Cadmium as an environmental contaminant – Consequences to
plant and human health.
17. Trace elements transport in plants.
18. Cadmium detoxification in plants – Involvement of ABC
transporters.
19. Iron: A major disease modifier in thalassaemia.
20. Trace Elements: Nutritional Benefits, Environmental
Contamination, and Health Implications in Cancer.
21. Mode of action and toxicity of trace elements.
22. Input and transfer of trace metals from food via mothermilk
to the child – bioindicative aspects to human health.
23. Selenium and lead in soil.
24. Arsenic and uranium contamination control by aquatic
plants.
25. Copper as an environmental contaminant and essential
nutrient: consequences to plant and human health.
26. Forms of copper, manganese, zinc, and iron in soils of
Slovakia, system of fertilizers recommendation and soil
monitoring.
27. Role of minerals in halophyte feeding to ruminants.
28. Plants as biomonitors of trace elements pollution in
soil.
29. Bioindication and biomonitoring as innovative biotechniques
for controlling trace metal influences to the environment.
Om författaren
M. N. V. Prasad, Ph D, is a Professor of Environmental Biology at the University of Hyderabad, India, and is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of six books and more than 170 research papers on environmental botany and heavy metal stress in plants. Dr. Prasad is an elected Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, England, and the National Institute of Ecology, New Delhi, India; life member of the National Institute of Ecology and the Bioenergy Society of India; and a member of the International Allelopathy Society and the Indian Network for Soil Contamination Research.
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