School of Land and Food, University of Tasmania Hobart, 7005, Australia.
Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China.
Plant Physiol Biochem. 2019 Jun;139:691-696. doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2019.04.022. Epub 2019 Apr 17.
Industrialization and inevitable mining has resulted in the release of some metals in environments, which have numerous industrial roles on one hand and also showed environmental toxicity on other hand. Beryllium is one of them, it has been used in number of industries however its excess use or inappropriate disposal of beryllium resulted in high beryllium accumulation in soil and ground water. This subsequently is affecting our environment and more potentially arable crop production. Beryllium has been extensively studied in humans and reported as toxic metal. In plants, only few studies have been documented toxic effects of beryllium in plants. Moreover, plant products (fruits, grains or other plant parts) could be major source of beryllium toxicity in our food chain therefore it is more imperative to understand how plant can be developed more tolerant to beryllium toxicity. In this short mini-review article, we primarily highlighted and speculated different beryllium uptake, translocation and beryllium storage mechanism in plants. This article provides considerable information for people who are working in identifying and developing heavy metal hyper accumulators plants.
工业化和不可避免的采矿导致一些金属在环境中释放，这些金属一方面具有许多工业作用，另一方面也表现出环境毒性。铍就是其中之一，它被广泛应用于许多行业，但铍的过度使用或不当处置导致了土壤和地下水的高铍积累。这随后影响了我们的环境，更有可能影响可耕地的作物生产。铍在人类中已被广泛研究，并被报道为有毒金属。在植物中，只有少数研究记录了铍对植物的毒性作用。此外，植物产品（水果、谷物或其他植物部分）可能是我们食物链中铍毒性的主要来源，因此，了解植物如何变得更能耐受铍毒性更为重要。在这篇简短的综述文章中，我们主要强调和推测了植物中不同的铍吸收、转运和铍储存机制。这篇文章为从事重金属超积累植物鉴定和开发的人员提供了相当多的信息。
