Phytoremediation of Metals Using Transgenic Plants

By E. Pilon-Smits, M. Pilon. 2002

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Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Physiology and molecular biology of stress tolerance in plants (2006, background): “Although naturally occurring heavy metal resistant plant species can be used for phytoremediation, characterization of genes involved in heavy metal resistance and hyperaccumulation, has led to the possibility for engineering plants for more efficient phytoremediation (Pilon-Smits and Pilon, 2002).”
Transgenic Plants for Abiotic Stress Resistance (2010, background): “There are no known naturally occurring plants that are able to detoxify or hyperaccumulate Hg (Pilon-Smits and Pilon 2002).”
Heavy Metal Phytoremediation from Aquatic Ecosystems with Special Reference to Macrophytes (2009, background): “In addition, some metals occur in the environment as radioactive isotopes (eg, 238 U, 137 Cs, 239 Pu, 90 Sr), which can greatly increase the health risk ( Pilon-Smits et al, 2002 ).”
Copper in plants: acquisition, transport and interactions. (2009, background): “2 Responses to copper toxicity Toxic levels of Cu occurs naturally in some soils whereas others may contain high levels of Cu as a result of anthropogenic release of heavy metals into the environment through application of pig and poultry slurries rich in Cu, fertilizers accumulation, fungicides, in”
Copper in plants (2005, background): “A comprehensive understanding of metal transport in plants will be essential for developing strategies to genetically engineer plants that accumulate specific metals, either for use in phytoremediation or to improve human nutrition (Salt et al., 1998; Pilon-Smits and Pilon, 2002).”
Heavy metals in plants: phytoremediation: plants used to remediate heavy metal pollution. (2010, background): “Now it is clear that to breed superior phytoremediator plants, it is necessary that they should have a high growth rate, produce more biomass, ecologically adaptive to diverse habitates, possess the ability to accumulate the target metal in the above-ground parts, can tolerate the high metal concent”
Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils: Phytoremediation as a Potentially Promising Clean-Up Technology (2009, background): “…are more bioavailable, enhanced exposure of wildlife and humans to metals, uncontrolled spread of transgenic plants due to higher fitness or general weedy nature, and/or uncontrolled spread of the transgenic plants by interbreeding with populations of wild relatives (Pilon-Smits & Pilon, 2002).”
Phytoremediation—An Overview (2005, methodology): “, 2003), whereas current research focuses on a transgenic approach (Pilon-Smits and Pilon, 2002; Berken et al., 2002; Tong, Kneer, and Zhe, 2004).”
Are Lemna spp. Effective Phytoremediation Agents (2007, methodology): “It is a non-invasive alternative or complementary technology for engineering-based remediation methods (Salt et al. 1995; Schnoor et al. 1995; Adler 1996; Miller 1996; Schnoor 1997; Sadowsky 1998; Pilon-Smits and Pilon 2002; Singh et al. 2003; Pilon-Smits 2005).”
Molecular Mechanism of Heavy Metal Toxicity and Tolerance in Plants: Central Role of Glutathione in Detoxification of Reactive Oxygen Species and Methylglyoxal and in Heavy Metal Chelation (2012, background): “In dicots, Fe (and possibly also Cu) is reduced by a reductase at the root cell membrane before uptake [155, 164].”
Metal hyperaccumulation and bioremediation (2007, background): “The over-expression of a gene encoding a ratelimiting gene product would be expected to lead a faster overall rate of the pathway and to more efficient phytoremediation (Pilon-Smits and Pilon 2001).”