Chapter 1: Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants: Physiological and Molecular AdaptationsSantanu Samanta and Aryadeep Roychoudhury Chapter 2: Heavy Metal Toxicity in Plants: Impact, Signaling and Remediation StrategiesPreeti Mishra, Afifa Qidwai, Nivedita Singh, Anupam Dikshit and S.C. Agrawal Chapter 3: Responses and Adaptation of Photosynthesis and Respiration under Heavy Metal StressRanjan Kumar Sahoo, Madhusmita Pradhan, Manjulata Palei, Sagar Maitra Chapter 4: Transcription Factors Involved in Plant Responses to Heavy Metal Stress AdaptationWasifa Hafiz Shah, Aadil Rasool, Seerat Saleem, Naveed Ul Mushtaq, Inayatullah Tahir, Reiaz Ul Rehman Chapter 5: Role of Transporters during Heavy Metals Toxicity in PlantsMisbah Naz, Mohammad Sohidul Islam, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Sytar Okana, Ratnasekera Disna, Akbar Hossain, Muhammad Mubeen, Junaid Rahim, Muhammad Imran, Md. Tahjib-Ul-Arif, Sharif Ahmed, Anamika Dubey, Ashwani Kumar, Milan Skalicky, Marian Brestic, Ayman EL Sabagh Chapter 6: Role for Genetically Modified Plants in Protection against Heavy Metal ToxicityAaliya Batool, Noreen Zahra, Rubina Naseer, Kanval Shaukat, Tahira Rasheed, Muhammad Bilal Hafeez Chapter 7: Unveiling the Mechanism of Transcriptional and Epigenetic Responses in plants under Heavy Metal Stress: An UpdateSamrat Banerjee, Mehali Mitra, Puja Agarwal and Sujit Roy Chapter 8: Emerging Roles of Osmoprotectants in Heavy Metal Stress Tolerance in PlantsAkbar Hossain, Zahoor Ahmad, Muhammad Adeel, Md. Atikur Rahman, Md. Jahangir Alam, Sharif Ahmed, Tariq Aftab Chapter 9: Uptake and Transformation of Heavy Metals/Metalloids in PlantsMuhammad Ashar Ayub, Muhammad Zia ur Rehman, Wajid Umar, Asad Jamil, Muhamad Zohaib Aslam, Hamaad Raza Ahmad, Zahoor Ahmad, Ayesha Siddique Chapter 10: Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms of Gasotransmitters-Mediated Heavy Metal Stress Tolerance in PlantsVivek Kumar, Akash Hidangmayum, Ankita Singh, Rekha Sodani, Basant Kumar Dadrwal, Navneet Kumar, Surendra Kumar Chaudhary, Brijesh Kumar Chaudhary, , SP Kushwaha, Jyoti Chauhan, Hirdesh Anuragi, Udit Nandan Mishra, Devidutta Lenka and Rajesh Kumar Singhal Chapter 11: Microbial and Plant assisted Bioremediation of Heavy Metal Polluted EnvironmentsSeerat Saleem, Naveed Ul Mushtaq, Wasifa Hafiz Shah, Aadil Rasool, Reiaz Ul Rehman Chapter 12:Role of Plant-associated Microbes in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal Polluted SoilsManoj Parihar, Amitava Rakshit, Manoj Kumar Chitara, Hanuman Singh Jatav, Vishnu D. Rajput, Ashish Kumar Singh, Kiran Rana, Surendra Singh Jatav, Mohsina Anjum and Utkarsh Kumar Chapter 13: Strategies to Reduce Heavy Metal Contamination in Soil-plant SystemMuhammad Bilal Shakoor, Usman Iftikhar, Sajid Rashid Ahmad, Sana Ashraf, Mujahid Farid, Tanzeela Kokab Chapter 14: Nano-BIOREM: A New Concept Towards Remedial StudyArpita Tripathi, Ravikant Singh, Saket Jha, Anand Pandey and Anupam Dikshit Chapter 15: Cadmium Uptake, Toxicity and Tolerance in PlantsAditi Shreeya Bali, Gagan Preet Singh Sidhu Chapter 16: Ecotoxicological Impacts of Arsenic on Plants and its Remediation ApproachesMohamed Gomaa and Mona F.A. Dawood Chapter 17: Proteomic and Genomic Approaches to Study Plant Physiological Responses under Heavy Metal StressAbhishek Joshi, Bhanupriya Kanthaliya, Supriya Meena, Vishnu Rajput, Tatiana Minkina, Jaya Arora Chapter 18: Reactive Oxygen and Nitrogen Species and Antioxidant Defence Studies in PlantsSharad K Tripathi, Afifa Qidwai, Rajesh Kumar