Heavy metals and toxic elements in plant cells: application of plants for remediation of polluted soil and their evaluations for food safety
Abstract
Present bilateral project is focused on detailed investigation of effects of various heavy metals and toxic elements on plant cells. Main targets of this project are to find out the cellular localization of particular heavy metals (Cd, Zn, Pb, Ni, Cu) and toxic metalloids (As, Sb), to describe the role of specific cell wall modifications in heavy metal and toxic element accumulation and plant tolerance, and to investigate physiological responses such as changes in the activity of pectin modifying enzymes, reactive oxygen species accumulation and MAPK signaling in three groups of plants: hyperaccumulators, widely used crops and model plant Arabidopsis. The establishment of bilateral cooperation, complementarity and combination of scientific methodologies used by Slovak and Austrian research teams would help to uncover the hidden aspects of heavy metals and toxic elements distribution and functioning in plant cells, and obtained results will provide a better insight into the actual topic of food safety and soil remediation.
heavy metals toxic metalloids Arabidopsis thaliana microscopy cell wall reactive oxygen species Signal transduction Molecular Physiology
Publikationen
Root hair abundance impacts cadmium accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana shoots.
Autoren: Kohanová, J; Martinka, M; Vaculík, M; White, PJ; Hauser, MT; Lux, A; Jahr: 2018
Journal articles
The cell wall as platform for heavy metal sensing.
Autoren: Richter J, Hauser M-T Jahr: 2018
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
Project staff
Marie-Theres Hauser
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Marie-Theres Hauser
marie-theres.hauser@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-94240
Project Leader
01.01.2016 - 31.12.2017
BOKU partners
External partners
University of Vienna, Faculty of Life Sciences, Core Facility Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research
aoUniv.Prof. Dr. Irene Lichtscheidl-Schultz
partner
Comenius University, Department of Plant Physiology
Dr. Marek Vaculik
sub-coordinator