from ecosystems to biomolecules

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
September 29 - 0ctober 1, 2002

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Thlaspi caerulescens EST sequence analysis
MGM Aarts

Metallophytes: a unique biodiversity resource ‘owned’ by the mining industry
AJM Baker

Food web implications of metal hyperaccumulation: herbivores and their predators and pathogens
RS Boyd

Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis halleri as models: molecular analysis of metal tolerance and metal signal transduction
S Clemens

Heavy metal detoxification mechanisms in plants
C Cobbett

Metallothioneins: metal tolerance and homeostasis
P Goldsborough

Gene discovery in aid of plant nutrition, human health and environmental remediation
ML Guerinot

Investigating the molecular physiology of heavy metal accumulation and tolerance using Thlaspi caerulescens as a model system
L Kochian

The role of membrane transporters and low-molecular-weight chelators in metal homeostasis of hyperaccumulators and closely related model plants
U Kraemer

The evolution of zinc hyperaccumulation
MR Macnair

Heavy metal and metalloid hyperaccumulating plants: physiology and potential for phytoremediation
SP McGrath

Testing strategies for the engineered phytoremediation of toxic mercury and arsenic pollution
R B Meagher

Fundamental mechanics of phytochelatin biosynthesis
PA Rea

Metal-tolerant and metal-accumulating plants - exploration and exploitation
RD Reeves

Pathways of arsenic transport and detoxification in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
BP Rosen

Molecular physiology of metal hyperaccumulation in plants
D Salt

Phytoremediation of heavy metals from the molecular to the field level: possible roles for phytochelatin and other cellular components
N Terry

Phytochelatin-dependent heavy metal detoxification in an animal, the nematode worm Caenorhabtidis elegans
O Vatamaniuk

Illustrations: Heavy Metal Plant cartoon by Sam Day. Arabidopsis thaliana - the model plant (Philip Rea). Micrograph of the leaf surface of the Ni-hyperaccumulator Alyssum lesbiacum (Ute Kraemer). Arabidopsis halleri growing at the bottom of a heap of minewaste (Ute Kraemer)
Heavy metals and plants: from ecosystems to biomolecules is funded by the New Phytologist Trust

Last updated: February 18, 2003