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Pteris cretica

Irrigation of paddy rice with arsenic contaminated groundwater

Scanning electron micrograph of a section of a pinna and the corresponding EDXA dot-map of As

Photograph of land degraded with arsenic

Feeding damage on Pteris vittata fronds from either control (a) or arsenic-treated plants (b) by grasshopper Schistocerca americana nymphs

 

 

 

 

  

Invited speakers

Kirk Scheckel (Cincinnati, OH, USA)
David Salt (West Lafayette, IN, USA
Jörg Feldmann (Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
Adam Price (Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
Om Dhankher (Amherst, MA, USA)
Sally Smith (Adelaide, Australia)
Yong-Guan Zhu (Beijing, China)
Walter Wenzel (Vienna, Austria)
Mark Macnair (Exeter, UK)
Antonio Leyva (Madrid, Spain)
Steve McGrath (Rothamsted, UK)
Fangjie Zhao (Rothamsted, UK)
Barry Rosen (Detroit, USA)
Henk Schat (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Frans Maathuis (York, UK)
Andy Meharg (Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
Nick Lepp (Liverpool, UK)


 

 

  Symposium logo Arsenic by Sam Day. Pteris cretica (As hyperaccumulator) courtesy of Steve McGrath; Irrigation of paddy rice with arsenic contaminated groundwater courtesy of Andy Meharg; Scanning electron micrograph of a section of a pinna and the corresponding EDXA dot-map of As Lombi et al., 2002; Photograph of land degraded with arsenic courtesy of Steve McGrath; Feeding damage on Pteris vittata fronds from either control (a) or arsenic-treated plants (b) by grasshopper Schistocerca americana nymphs Rathinasabapathi et al., 2007