Medicinal plants are the richest bio-resource of drugs for traditional medicines, modern medicines, nutraceuticals as well as chemical entities for synthetic drugs [1]. Pollution of foods by heavy metal in living tissues through food chain is a worldwide phenomenon. Studies have revealed that fruits and leafy vegetables are vulnerable to heavy metal contamination
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