Publications by authors named "Eszter Sas"
Article Synopsis
- Arsenic in soils can harm people's health by getting into crops, so scientists are studying how plants like white lupin deal with it.
- The research showed that white lupin uses special substances (like glutathione and phytochelatin) to get rid of arsenic, but stopping the plant from making these substances made them more sensitive to arsenic.
- The study found two specific ways the plant handles arsenic and suggested that understanding how plants detoxify arsenic could help reduce pollution and make crops safer to eat.
Valuable alkaloids content is preserved in and grown in trace elements contaminated soil.
Int J Phytoremediation
October 2022
Phytoextraction of trace elements (TE) using woody species is an economically challenging soil remediation approach because of the long time needed. Yet, some trees contain alkaloids that can be exploited along structural components to enhance biomass value. As alkaloids are thought to be involved in plant defence mechanisms, we hypothesized that potentially hostile phytoremediation conditions could increase their level.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSoil contamination with toxic metalloids, such as arsenic, can represent a substantial human health and environmental risk. Some plants are thought to tolerate soil toxicity using root exudation, however, the nature of this response to arsenic remains largely unknown. Here, white lupin plants were exposed to arsenic in a semi-hydroponic system and their exudates were profiled using untargeted liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.
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