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Wounding of Arabidopsis halleri leaves enhances cadmium accumulation that acts as a defense against herbivory

Plaza, Sonia ; Weber, Johann ; Pajonk, Simone ; Thomas, Jérôme ; Talke, Ina N. ; Schellenberg, Maja ; Pradervand, Sylvain ; Burla, Bo ; Geisler, Markus ; Martinoia, Enrico ; Krämer, Ute

In: BioMetals, 2015, vol. 28, no. 3, p. 521–528

Approximately 0.2 % of all angiosperms are classified as metal hyperaccumulators based on their extraordinarily high leaf metal contents, for example >1 % zinc, >0.1 % nickel or >0.01 % cadmium (Cd) in dry biomass. So far, metal hyperaccumulation has been considered to be a taxon-wide, constitutively expressed trait, the extent of which depends solely on available metal concentrations in the...

Université de Fribourg

Comparative mutant analysis of Arabidopsis ABCC-type ABC transporters: AtMRP2 contributes to detoxification, vacuolar organic anion transport and chlorophyll degradation

Frelet-Barrand, Annie ; Kolukisaoglu, H. Üner ; Plaza, Sonia ; Rüffer, Maika ; Azevedo, Louis ; Hörtensteiner, Stefan ; Marinova, Krasimira ; Weder, Barbara ; Schulz, Burkhard ; Klein, Markus

In: Plant and Cell Physiology, 2008, vol. 49, no. 4, p. 557-569

The enormous metabolic plasticity of plants allows detoxification of many harmful compounds that are generated during biosynthetic processes or are present as biotic or abiotic toxins in their environment. Derivatives of toxic compounds such as glutathione conjugates are moved into the central vacuole via ATP-binding cassette (ABC)-type transporters of the multidrug resistance-associated protein...