Research Briefs: University of California-San Diego

Superfund Research Program

Molecular Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Detoxification and Accumulation in Plants

Project Leader: Julian I. Schroeder
Grant Number: P42ES010337
Funding Period: 2000-2017

Research Briefs

• 260 - Identifying Mechanisms for Regulating Gas Exchange in Plants -- Schroeder
  Release Date: 08/03/2016

  Superfund Research Program (SRP) researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are identifying important mechanisms that plants use to respond to changes in the environment. They recently discovered molecular mechanisms that enhance the activity of proteins essential to closing stomata, or pores found on the surface of leaves, in response to environmental stressors.

• 192 - Discovery of the Key to Metal Accumulation in Plants -- Schroeder
  Release Date: 12/01/2010

  Plants that take up hazardous metals can help clean up polluted soils, but they also can become a route of human exposure when edible crops take up pollutants. Researchers are deciphering how plants take up metals in order to better control the process.

• 110 - Resistance to Heavy Metals - a Possible Tool for Phytoremediation -- Schroeder
  Release Date: 02/06/2004