Cadmium, ranking the first grade of so-called ”the Five Most Toxic Heavy Metals”, i.e. Cd, Hg, As, Cr and Pb, is a severe toxin to plant, animal and human healthy. Comparatively, anthropogenic Cd distributes mainly in topsoil that being hardly deposited by the soil organic compounds but being easily assimilated in root and accumulated in shoot by plant and crop. However, the ecological adaptability and Cd accumulating ability in different plant varieties and species vary drastically. This article addresses the progress of study on mechanism of physio-chemical and molecular response tocadmium stress in plant, and based on which, the progresses of potential exploitations of plant germplasm are summarized by the catalogue of: (1) Cd-tolerance ecotypes with higher Cd-chargedcapacity to be utilized potentially in phytoremediation of Cd contaminated soil; (2) Cd-resistance ecotypes with lower Cd-charged capacity in shoot to be utilized in a crop breeding program with higher sanitary quality; and (3) Molecular Marker Selection (MAS) and genetic engineering of Cd-tolerance plants.