ABSTRACT

In view of the increasing anthropogenic impact on the environment, the problem of emissions of heavymetals(HMs)getsmoreandmoreattention.StudyoninteractioneffectsbetweenHMand biomoleculesisofgreattheoreticalandpracticalimportanceasitconcernseconomicalandsocial lifespheres,suchasmedicine,eco-toxicology,agriculture,recyclingofwastes,etc.Despitethe numerousreviewsandreportsonHMinliterature,thestudyofphytotoxicitymechanismsisstill incomplete (Masarovicˇová et al. 1999, Prasad and Hagemeyer 1999, Titov et al. 2007).