Members of the team
ALBAN Claude, INRAE Researcher Director,
Claude.Alban[@]cea.frBEAULIER Camille, PhD Student,
Camille.Beaulier[@]cea.frBOURGUIGNON Jacques, CEA Research Director, MetalStress,
Jacques.Bourguignon[@]cea.frDEVIME Fabienne, INRAE Engineer Assistant,
Fabienne.Devime[@]cea.frFIGUET Sylvie, INRAE Technician,
Sylvie.Figuet[@]cea.frGALEONE Adrien, INRAE Assistant Engineer,
Adrien.Galeone2[@]cea.frMARTIN-LAFFON Jacqueline, CNRS Research Engineer,
Jacqueline.Martin-Laffon[@]cea.frPRZYBYLA-TOSCANO Jonathan, INRAE Researcher,
Jonathan.Przybyla-Toscano[@]cea.frRAILLON Camille, CEA Researcher, MétalStress Team,
Camille.Raillon[@]cea.frRAVANEL Stéphane, INRAE Research Director,
Stephane.Ravanel[@]cea.fr
ROSSILE Alice, Master 1 Student,
Alice.Rossile[@]cea.fr
PresentationContamination of soil and water by heavy metals (HM) represents a major environmental hazard to human health. Soil pollution by HM currently affects about 235 million hectares. Understanding how plants respond to HM is crucial in the quest to improve plant capacity to resist to HM pollution. Inside the plant, different processes contribute to enhance metal tolerance; including extracellular immobilization (cell wall and other carbohydrates), active exclusion into the apoplast, chelation in the cytosol and sequestration into the vacuoles.
Therefore, a better comprehension of the molecular mechanisms controlling these processes, as well as understanding metal toxicity and accumulation in plants, is of prime importance to design new strategies of phytoremediation via engineered plants or natural hyperaccumulators but also for phytomining and food crop biofortification. This is also very important for the selection of crops with low HM contents, or from an ecotoxicological point of view, for example to identify biomarkers of pollution.
We are interested in evaluating the impact of HM stresses on cell function and elucidating the biochemical and physiological defense mechanisms adopted by plants to counter these stresses.
Keywords Heavy metal stress, heavy metal detoxification, cadmium, cesium, RMN, ICP-MS, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, vacuole, selenium binding protein, Arabidopsis, plant cells and algae cultures, uranium, phytoremediation, MeP pathway, light stress, phosphate deficiency
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