from ecosystems to biomolecules

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


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Arabidopsis thaliana

Ni-hyperaccumulator Alyssum lesbiacum

Arabidopsis halleri growing on mine waste

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Acquisition of Cd and Zn by the hyperaccumulator plant Thlaspi caerulescens: role of chemical and spatial availability
Aiyen, R. Schulz and V. Römheld

Effect of arsenate treatment on growth and arsenic accumulation in four high biomass members of the Brassicaceae
Nancy Artus

Responses of Populus deltoides x P. nigra (P. x euramericana) I-214 to high concentrations of zinc. Implications for phytoremediation
D. Di Baccio, R. Tognetti, L. Sebastiani and C. Vitagliano

Cd tolerance and hyperaccumulation in Arabidopsis halleri: genetic basis and identification of genes using a cDNA-AFLP approach
V. Bert, P. Meerts, P. Saumitou-Laprade, P. Salis, W. Gruber and N. Verbruggen

In vitro and in situ analysis of the effects of heavy metals on Azobacter spp. and Rhizobium spp.
N. Boiko, I. Chonka, and V. Nikolaichuk

Engineered tolerance and hyperaccumulation of arsenic in plants: combining arsenate reductase and g-glutamylcysteine synthetase
Om Parkash Dhankher, Yujing Li, Barry P. Rosen, David Salt and Richard B. Meagher

Characterisation of ZAT-like AhCDF1 genes encoding putative vacuolar zinc transporters in A. halleri
Dörthe Dräger, Agnes N. Chardonnens, C. Krach, P. Saumitou-Laprade and Ute Krämer

Regulation of metal uptake in Arabidopsis
Erin L. Connolly, Jennifer H. Barwick, Nathan Campbell, Indrani Chatterjee and Mary Lou Guerinot

Comparative analysis of tolerance to low-zinc stress in food crops
Gokhan Hacisalihoglu and Leon Kochian

The property of plant roots to affect soil geochemistry and release of heavy metals
Maria Greger

Cloning of an ABC transporter gene involved in cadmium tolerance in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Marc Hanikenne, Caroline Nieberding, René F. Matagne, Madeline C.S. Wu and Roland Loppes

Metal-specificity of the histidine response in hyperaccumulator plants
F. A. Harper, E. Gratia, K. I. Köhl, A. J. M. Baker and J. A. C. Smith

Characterization of zinc tolerance genes in the zinc/cadmium hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens
Melinda Klein, Nicole Pence and Leon Kochian

Analysis of accumulation and distribution of heavy metals in ecosystems of the Eastern Carpathian Mountains (Ukraine)
V. I. Kozlovskyy and O. Maryskevych

Molecular aspects of the adaptive zinc tolerance of the ectomycorrhizal fungus Suillus luteus
M. Lambaerts

Arabidopsis mutants exhibiting increased tolerance to arsenate
David A. Lee, Alice Chen and Julian I. Schroeder

Ectopic expression of bacterial genes encoding glutathione synthetic enzymes increases the capacity of Arabidopsis thaliana AtPCS1 transgenics for PC biosynthesis and accumulation. Analysis of tissue distribution of expression and subcellular localization of AtPCS1 fusions
Shun Liang, Olena K. Vatamaniuk, Chida Sulli, Albert Lang, Rui-Hong Li, Andrew N. Binns and Philip A. Rea

Objective environmental risk assessment methods for genetically modified hyperaccumulators
Nicholas A. Linacre, Steven N. Whiting, Scott Angle, and Alan J.M. Baker

Identification of several members from the ZIP family of metal ion transporters in Medicago truncatula
Ana-Flor Lopez-Millan, Danielle R. Ellis and Michael A. Grusak

Phytoextraction of lead from soil and effects of heavy metals on the properties of ion channels in plant cell membranes
P. Magistrelli, M. Bregante, A. Naso, A. Paganetto, F. Lo Schiavo, L. Martella and F.Gambale

Dealing with Ni: comparison between a hyperaccumulator and a non-hyperaccumulator species of Alyssum on serpentine soils
M. Marmiroli, E. Maestri, C. Gonnelli, R. Gabbrielli and N. Marmiroli

Endemism vs invasibility in nickel hyperaccumulators
Mary A. McKenna, Rufus L. Chaney and Eric P. Brewer

Metallicolous and non-metallicolous populations of Thlaspi caerulescens: a comparison of metal accumulation capacity
P. Meerts, C. Hotte, N. Noret, W. Gruber and C. Lefébvre

Heavy metal transport into root cells of rice (Oryza sativa)
Dahan-Fumbar Mirit and Nava Moran

A carrot potassium channel with low susceptibility towards metal ions
A. Naso, P. Magistrelli, C. Picco, M. Bregante and F. Gambale

Identification and characterization of a heavy metal transporting P-type ATPase from the heavy metal hyperaccumulating plant species, Thlaspi caerulescens
Ashot Papoyan, Nicole Pence and Leon Kochian

The effect of the pH of pH buffered nutrient solutions on nickel hyperaccumulation by Alyssum corsicum and Berkheya coddii
Carinne Peters, Rufus L. Chaney, J. Scott Angle and Richard J. Roseberg

Characterization of a NifS-like Chloroplast Protein from Arabidopsis thaliana - Implications for its Role in Sulfur and Selenium Metabolism
Elizabeth A.H. Pilon-Smits, Gulnara F. Garifullina, Salah Abdel-Ghany, Jason L. Burkhead, Tatsuo Kurihara and Marinus Pilon

Transport and bioaccumulation of cadmium in seeds of agronomic crops
Renuka Sankaran and Stephen Ebbs

Responses to cadmium in different populations of Thlaspi caerulescens
N. Roosens, C. Bernard, P. Meerts, J.A.C. Smith and N. Verbruggen

Regulation and expression of metallothioneins in response to heavy metal stress in the aquatic fern Azolla
Tamar Schor and Elisha Tel-Or

Identifying the genes involved in cadmium hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi caerulescens
K. Tearall, J.R. Howarth, D.E. Evans, F.J. Zhao, S.P. McGrath and M.J. Hawkesford

Cadmium transport and tolerance in the Zn/Cd hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens
Shilpa Uchil and Stephen Ebbs

Metal hyperaccumulation does not increase drought resistance in Thlaspi caerulescens and Alyssum murale
Steven N. Whiting, Peter M. Neumann and Alan J.M. Baker

Metal uptake, allocation and release from Spartina alterniflora and Phragmites australis: species' matter in natural attenuation of a metal-contaminated salt marsh, Hackensack Meadowlands
Lisamarie Windham, Judith Weis, and Peddrick Weis

A comparative study of root-cap cell functions using a cytostatic cis-DDPt, cycloheximide, and cadmium nitrate
Tatiana Litinskaia

Higher plant metallothionein-like gene responsiveness to cytokinin
John C. Thomas

      

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

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