Antony van der Ent

Cis-regulatory elements co-opting core circadian clock regulator CCA1 underlie enhanced expression of HMA4 for metal hyperaccumulation in Arabidopsis halleri Short summary: Metal hyperaccumulation and hypertolerance in Arabidopsis halleri rely on elevated HMA4 transcript levels. Compared to A. thaliana HMA4, enhanced AhHMA4 promoter activity requires CCA1 ...

Cis-regulatory elements co-opting core circadian clock regulator CCA1 underlie enhanced expression of HMA4 for metal hyperaccumulation in Arabidopsis halleri: Plant Communications www.cell.com/plant-commun...

Metal Homeostasis in Land Plants: A Perpetual Balancing Act Beyond the Fulfilment of Metalloproteome Cofactor Demands One of life's decisive innovations was to harness the catalytic power of metals for cellular chemistry. With life's expansion, global atmospheric and biogeochemical cycles underwent dramatic...

Metal Homeostasis in Land Plants: A Perpetual Balancing Act Beyond the Fulfilment of Metalloproteome Cofactor Demands - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Engineering autonomously luminescent plants using fungal bioluminescence pathway - Yu et al. - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

...by the way, if you want to develop a Postdoctoral project with us on #metal #hyperaccumulation, the Toulouse University is opening the TIRIS AToUT Posdoctoral Fellowship program tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...

Initial shoot regeneration in the selenium hyperaccumulator Neptunia amplexicaulis and in vitro test system for selenium tolerance and accumulation - Natural Products and Bioprospecting The trace element selenium is essential for human nutrition but is distributed unevenly in soils worldwide with extensive selenium-deficient regions and selenium-enriched (seleniferous) areas. Neptuni...

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Microbial Phosphate Solubilization Promotes Rare Earth Element Accumulation in the Hyperaccumulator Dicranopteris linearis from China Plant and rhizosphere soil samples of the rare earth element (REE) hyperaccumulator plant Dicranopteris linearis were collected across tropical and subtropical China to elucidate how rhizosphere micro...

Microbial Phosphate Solubilization Promotes Rare Earth Element Accumulation in the Hyperaccumulator Dicranopteris linearis from China | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Physiological Effect of Thallium in the Facultative Hyperaccumulator Silene latifolia - Regini - 2025 - Physiologia Plantarum - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

These crabs probably saved your life. Can we save theirs? The medical world relies on horseshoe crab blood in the production of vaccines and equipment. A synthetic is available, but companies have been slow to adopt it.

For decades, the biomedical industry has relied on a compound in horseshoe crab blood to protect medical equipment from contamination, saving untold human lives.

But conservationists say modern medicine’s dependence on this bloodletting is upending a globe-spanning ecosystem.

Assessing current curation, identification and digitisation practices in herbaria: Results from a global survey The value of herbarium specimens depends largely on the accuracy and accessibility of the data captured, which is dependent on curation practices. Previous studies have shown high levels of misidenti...

Assessing current curation, identification and digitisation practices in herbaria: Results from a global survey - Aceae - PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Surviving Allchar: arsenic and thallium tolerance and distribution in Viola metallophytes

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Supersized stick insect discovered in high-altitude trees in Australia The 40cm-long insect, named Acrophylla alta, weighs slightly less than a golf ball and may be the heaviest insect in Australia

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Just returned from travel to Sabah (Malaysia), staying near the glorious Mount Kinabalu, the most biodiverse area of the World with nearly 6000 plant species in an area of just 1200 km2.

I spotted a very pretty Borneo Anglehead lizard (Gonocephalus bornensis) sitting on a tree trunk near Poring, Kinabalu Park (Sabah, Malaysia).

The 'primitive' orchid Neuwiedia zollingeri grows terrestrially on serpentinite derived soils in Sabah, Malaysia.

We had the chance to see a Rafflesia keithii near Poring (Sabah, Malaysia). It parasitises on the vine Tetrastigma leucostaphylum and can reach up to 80–95 cm in diameter.

Happy memories: a few years back, looking at specimens in the herbarium of the Forest Research Centre at Sepilok with Prof Guillaume Echevarria and the renowned botanist Datuk Anthony Lamb.

The Wartime Mining Boom Exporting Rare Earths, and Toxins

The Wartime Mining Boom Exporting Rare Earths, and Toxins www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/w...

A puddle full with yellow-bellied toads (Bombina variegata) in North Macedonia.

Spotted a beautiful male European green lizard (Lacerta viridis).

Fieldwork at Toranica (North Macedonia) with natural zinc-lead mineralisation at high altitude with characteristic metallophytes including Noccaea and Viola.

The famous Viola allchariensis, a steno-endemic species to Allchar in North Macedonia.

Allchar is the most toxic (natural) site in the World with extraordinary high arsenic and thallium concentrations in soils.

We're back at Allchar (North Macedonia) again this year for fieldwork on hyperaccumulation. This time we focus on metal(loid) accumulation in bryophytes.

A global minerals trust could prevent inefficient and inequitable protectionist policies Critical mineral supply and demand require global coordination to reduce market volatility and conflict risk

A global minerals trust could prevent inefficient and inequitable protectionist policies | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Recent fieldwork in a reserve near the Sint-Pietersberg in Belgium. This unique site has a very rich orchid flora with Orchis militaris and O. anthropophora and their hybrids.

The Casino Weiher Halde at Kelmis (Belgium) where zinc smelting waste was dumped with the zinc-lead metallophyte Viola lutea subsp. calaminaria and the zinc hyperaccumulator Noccaea caerulescens.

The Tin Racket Illegal mining ransacked these Indonesian islands. Tech titans turned a blind eye.

The Tin Racket thegeckoproject.org/articles/ill... via @geckoproj

Beautiful Orchis purpurea in South Limburg, The Netherlands.

Nepenthes × hookeriana Canva.

Nepenthes creates an unusually slippery trap using common developmental processes

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Global soil pollution by toxic metals threatens agriculture and human health Toxic metal pollution is ubiquitous in soils, yet its worldwide distribution is unknown. We analyzed a global database of soil pollution by arsenic, cadmium, cobalt, chromium, copper, nickel, and lead...

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