Heavy metal stress on medicinal plant and its resistance and hyperaccumulation mechanism
- Received Date: 2009-11-05
- Rev Recd Date: 2009-12-10
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Key words:
- heavy metal stress /
- medicinal plants /
- tolerance /
- hyperaccumulation
Abstract: Heavy metals in soil will affect the growth,development,multiplication of plants.Meanwhile,the plants that grow under heavy metal press can produce heavy metal tolerance and hyperaccumulation.This paper reviewed the impacts of heavy metal stress on the growth of medicinal plants and its machanism of tolerance and hyperaccumulation.The impacts of heavy metal tolerance and hyperaccumulation on the safety of traditional Chinese medicine were also reviewed.
Citation: | ZHAO Hong-fang, HUANG Bao-kang. Heavy metal stress on medicinal plant and its resistance and hyperaccumulation mechanism[J]. Journal of Pharmaceutical Practice and Service, 2010, 28(6): 406-409,467. |