1. Metal Availability, Uptake, Transport and Accumulation in Plants.- 2. Metal Speciation, Chelation and Complexing Ligands in Plants.- 3. Metallothioneins, Metal Binding Complexes and Metal Sequestration in Plants.- 4. Heavy Metal Induced Oxidative Damage in Terrestrial Plants.- 5. Membrane Lipid Alterations in Heavy Metal Exposed Plants.- 6. Photosynthesis in Heavy Metal Stressed Plants.- 7. Plant Mitochondrial Respiration Under the Influence of Heavy Metals.- 8. Ecophysiology of Plant Growth Under Heavy Metal Stress.- 9. Structural and Ultrastructural Changes in Heavy Metal Exposed Plants.- 10. Water Relations in Heavy Metal Stressed Plants.- 11. Heavy Metals as Essential Nutrients.- 12. Metal Pollution and Forest Decline.- 13. Root and Rhizosphere Processes in Metal Hyperaccumulation and Phytoremediation Technology.- 14. Phytoremediation of Metals and Radionuclides in the Environment: The Case for Natural Hyperaccumulators, Metal Transporters, Soil-Amending Chelators and TransgenicPlants.- 15. Metal Removal from Sewage Sludge: Bioengineering and Biotechnological Applications.- 16. Species-Selective Analysis for Metals and Metalloids in Plants.- 17. Experimental Characterisation of Metal Tolerance.