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SUBMITTER: Morkunas I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6225295 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morkunas Iwona I Woźniak Agnieszka A Mai Van Chung VC Rucińska-Sobkowiak Renata R Jeandet Philippe P
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20180911 9
The present review discusses the impact of heavy metals on the growth of plants at different concentrations, paying particular attention to the hormesis effect. Within the past decade, study of the hormesis phenomenon has generated considerable interest because it was considered not only in the framework of plant growth stimulation but also as an adaptive response of plants to a low level of stress which in turn can play an important role in their responses to other stress factors. In this revie ...[more]