ABSTRACT
Food legume plants yield diversified benefits such as high nutrition, biofuel, medicinal potential, farmer’s livelihood, poverty alleviation, eradication of malnutrition, and development of sustainable agriculture productivity, though they face many stress factors from biotic and abiotic sources. Heavy metal toxicity in food legume plants suppresses the plant growth and deteriorates the development by dwindling the various essential processes in plants by multiple ways. Heavy metals in general suppress the metabolic activities, hindering the translocation of reserve material to growing regions at elevated concentrations. The usage of pesticide or other ways to control the pests thus reduces the crop loss by it and increases the yield. But the problem is coming because of the intensive usage of pesticides. In general, a plant has its own inherent mechanisms to mitigate various abiotic and biotic stresses. For example, the chickpea germination rate tolerated 100 mg/L of chromium.
