BIOLOGY 415 PLANT CONSTITUENTS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS. Winter Term, 2001

Inorganic Constituents: UPDATE OF SELECTED REFERENCES

Some references on bioremediation (organic contaminents) are listed with the references on cell walls and biomass.

Anderson, C. W. N., R. R. Brooks, A. Chiarucci, C. J. Lacoste, M. Leblanc, B. H. Robinson, R. Simcock, and R. B. Stewart. 1999. Phytomining for Nickel, Thallium and Gold. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 67, no. 1-3: 407-15.

Anderson, C. W. N., R. R. Brooks, R. B. Stewart, and R. Simcock. 1998. Harvesting a Crop of Gold in Plants. Nature 395, no. 6702: 553-54.

Bargagli, B. 1998. Trace Elements in Terrestrial Plants: An Ecophysiological Approach to Biomonitoring and
Biorecovery. Berlin: Springer Verlag.

Barinaga, M. 1997. Making plants aluminum tolerant. Science 276: 1497.

Boyd, R. S., and S. N. Martens. 1994. Nickel Hyperaccumulated by Thlaspi-Montanum Var Montanum Is Acutely Toxic to an Insect Herbivore. Oikos 70, no. 1: 21-25.

———. 1998. Nickel Hyperaccumulation by Thlaspi Montanum Var. Montanum (Brassicaceae): a Constitutive Trait. American Journal of Botany 85, no. 2: 259-65.

Briat, J. F., and M. Lebrun. 1999. Plant Responses to Metal Toxicity. Comptes Rendus De L Academie Des Sciences Serie Iii-Sciences De La Vie-Life Sciences 322, no. 1: 43-54.

Brooks, R. R., Editor. 1998. Plants that Hyperaccumulate Heavy Metals: Their Role in Phytoremediation, Microbiology,
Archaeology, Mineral Exploration, and Phytomining. Oxford: CAB International.

Brooks, R. R., M. F. Chambers, L. J. Nicks, and B. H. Robinson. 1998. Phytomining. Trends in Plant Science 3, no. 9: 359-62.

Cobbett, C. S. 2000. Phytochelatin Biosynthesis and Function in Heavy-Metal Detoxification. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 3, no. 3: 211-16.

Ernst, W. H. O. 2000. Evolution of Metal Hyperaccumulation and Phytoremediation Hype. New Phytologist 146, no. 3: 357-58.

Fisher, R. F., C. N. Bourn, and W. F. Fisher. 1995. Opal Phytoliths as an Indicator of the Floristics of Prehistoric Grasslands. Geoderma 68, no. 4: 243-55.

Foulkes, E. C. 2000. Transport of Toxic Heavy Metals Across Cell Membranes. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine 223, no. 3: 234-40.

Fredlund, G. G., and L. L. Tieszen. 1997. Calibrating Grass Phytolith Assemblages in Climatic Terms: Application to Late Pleistocene Assemblages From Kansas and Nebraska. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 136, no. 1-4: 199-211.

Gleba, D., N. V. Borisjuk, L. G. Borisjuk, R. Kneer, A. Poulev, M. Sarzhinskaya, S. Dushenkov, S. Logendra, Y. Y. Gleba, and I. Raskin. 1999. Use of Plant Roots for Phytoremediation and Molecular Farming. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 96, no. 11: 5973-77.

Jiang, W., D. Liu, and W. Hou. 2000. Hyperaccumulation of Lead by Roots, Hypocotyls, and Shoots of Brassica Juncea. Biologia Plantarum 43, no. 4: 603-6.

Kealhofer, L., and D. Penny. 1998. A Combined Pollen and Phytolith Record for Fourteen Thousand Years of Vegetation Change in Northeastern Thailand. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 103, no. 1-2: 83-93.

Khan, S. R., Editor. 1995. Calcium Oxalate in Biological Systems. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Kirschner, E. M. 1995. Botanical plants proves useful in cleaning up industrial sites. Chemical and Engineering News : 22-24.

Lasat, M. M., A. J. M. Baker, and L. V. Kochian. 1998. Altered Zn Compartmentation in the Root Symplasm and Stimulated Zn Absorption Into the Leaf as Mechanisms Involved in Zn Hyperaccumulation in Thlaspi Caerulescens. Plant Physiology 118, no. 3: 875-83.

Lasat, M. M., N. S. Pence, D. F. Garvin, S. D. Ebbs, and L. V. Kochian. 2000. Molecular Physiology of Zinc Transport in the Zn Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi Caerulescens. Journal of Experimental Botany 51, no. 342: 71-79.

Leblanc, M., D. Petit, A. Deram, B. H. Robinson, and R. R. Brooks. 1999. The Phytomining and Environmental Significance of Hyperaccumulation of Thallium by Iberis Intermedia From Southern France. Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists 94, no. 1: 109-13.

Leshem, Y. Y., and P. J. C. Kuiper. 1996. Is There a Gas (General Adaptation Syndrome) Response to Various Types of Environmental Stress? Biologia Plantarum 38, no. 1: 1-18.

Marktl, W. 1999. Micronutrients in cancer prevention [Review] [German]. Forschende Komplementarmedizin. 6, no. 5: 248-55.

Martens, S. N., and R. S. Boyd. 1994. The Ecological Significance of Nickel Hyperaccumulation - a Plant-Chemical Defense. Oecologia 98, no. 3-4: 379-84.

Maywald, F., and H. J. Weigel. 1997. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Heavy Metal Accumulation in Higher Plants. Landbauforschung Volkenrode 47, no. 3: 103-26.

Meagher, R. B. 2000. Phytoremediation of Toxic Elemental and Organic Pollutants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 3, no. 2: 153-62.

Nedelkoska, T. V., and P. M. Doran. 2000. Hyperaccumulation of Cadmium by Hairy Roots of Thlaspi Caerulescens. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 67, no. 5: 607-15.

Nordberg, M., and G. F. Nordberg. 2000. Toxicological Aspects of Metallothionein. Cellular and Molecular Biology 46, no. 2: 451-63.

Oliver, C., and A. Porta. 1998. Environmental Toxicology: Metallothioneins and Cellular Metabolism. Acta Bioquimica Clinica Latinoamericana 32, no. 3: 363-+.

Piperno, D. R., D. M. Pearsall, R. A. Benfer, L. Kealhofer, Z. J. Zhao, and Q. H. Jiang. 1999. Phytolith Morphology. Science 283, no. 5406: 1265-66.

Pollard, A. J. 2000. Metal Hyperaccumulation: a Model System for Coevolutionary Studies. New Phytologist 146, no. 2: 179-81.

Rauser, W. E. 1999. Structure and Function of Metal Chelators Produced by Plants - the Case for Organic Acids, Amino Acids, Phytin, and Metallothioneins. Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics 31, no. 1: 19-48.

Robinson, B. H., A. Chiarucci, R. R. Brooks, D. Petit, J. H. Kirkman, P. E. H. Gregg, and V. Dedominicis. 1997. The Nickel Hyperaccumulator Plant Alyssum Bertolonii as a Potential Agent for Phytoremediation and Phytomining of Nickel. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 59, no. 2: 75-86.

Roesijadi, G. 2000. Metal Transfer as a Mechanism for Metallothionein-Mediated Metal Detoxification. Cellular and Molecular Biology 46, no. 2: 393-405.

Rouhl, A. M. 1997. Plants to the rescue. Chemical and Engineering News : 21-23.
Notes: Plants that accumulate certain elements may become key players in soil cleanup.

Sagner, S., R. Kneer, G. Wanner, J. P. Cosson, B. Deus-Neumann, and M. H. Zenk. 1998. Hyperaccumulation, Complexation and Distribution of Nickel in Sebertia Acuminata. Phytochemistry 47, no. 3: 339-47.

Salt, D. E., R. D. Smith, and I. Raskin. 1998. Phytoremediation. Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 49: 643-68.

Samson, S. L. A., and L. Gedamu. 1998. Molecular Analyses of Metallothionein Gene Regulation. 257-88. Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology.

Shen, Z. G., F. J. Zhao, and S. P. Mcgrath. 1997. Uptake and Transport of Zinc in the Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi Caerulescens and the Non-Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi Ochroleucum. Plant Cell and Environment 20, no. 7: 898-906.

Trapp, S., and J. C. McFarlan, Editors. 1995. Plant Contamination. Modeling and Simulation of Organic Chemical Processes. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis.

Vasak, M., and D. W. Hasler. 2000. Metallothioneins: New Functional and Structural Insights. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 4, no. 2: 177-83.

Zhang, Y. X., T. Y. Chai, and G. Burkard. 1999. Research Advances on the Mechanisms of Heavy Metal Tolerance in Plants. Acta Botanica Sinica 41, no. 5: 453-57.


* Special interest.

** Suggested reading.



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