Publications by authors named "Nicholas James Beresford Brereton"
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- 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.
Soil 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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Variation in the reaction wood (RW) response has been shown to be a principle component driving differences in lignocellulosic sugar yield from the bioenergy crop willow. The phenotypic cause(s) behind these differences in sugar yield, beyond their common elicitor, however, remain unclear. Here we use X-ray micro-computed tomography (μCT) to investigate RW-associated alterations in secondary xylem tissue patterning in three dimensions (3D).
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