Genetic engineering in the improvement of plants for phytoremediation of metal polluted soils

TERRESTRIAL HIGHER PLANTS WHICH HYPERACCUMULATE METALLIC ELEMENTS. A REVIEW OF THEIR DISTRIBUTION, ECOLOGY AND PHYTOCHEMISTRY

1989 • 2,224 citations

Phytoremediation: A Novel Strategy for the Removal of Toxic Metals from the Environment Using Plants

1995 • 2,199 citations

PHYTOREMEDIATION

1998 • 1,940 citations

A novel iron-regulated metal transporter from plants identified by functional expression in yeast.

1996 • 1,353 citations

FERRITIN: STRUCTURE, GENE REGULATION, AND CELLULAR FUNCTION IN ANIMALS, PLANTS, AND MICROORGANISMS

1987 • 1,305 citations

BACTERIAL HEAVY METAL RESISTANCE: New Surprises

1996 • 1,263 citations

Enhanced Accumulation of Pb in Indian Mustard by Soil-Applied Chelating Agents

1997 • 1,262 citations

Phytoremediation of soil metals

1997 • 1,246 citations

A ferric-chelate reductase for iron uptake from soils

1999 • 1,208 citations

Phytoremediation of contaminated soils

1995 • 957 citations

Free histidine as a metal chelator in plants that accumulate nickel

1996 • 941 citations

Iron fortification of rice seed by the soybean ferritin gene

1999 • 779 citations

Identification of a family of zinc transporter genes fromArabidopsisthat respond to zinc deficiency

1998 • 699 citations

Glutathione Metabolic Genes Coordinately Respond to Heavy Metals and Jasmonic Acid in Arabidopsis

1998 • 659 citations

Bacterial resistances to toxic metal ions - a review

1996 • 598 citations

Cadmium-Sensitive, cad1 Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana Are Phytochelatin Deficient

1995 • 576 citations

Transport of Metal-binding Peptides by HMT1, A Fission Yeast ABC-type Vacuolar Membrane Protein

1995 • 468 citations

PHYTOCHELATINS

1990 • 437 citations

Mercuric ion reduction and resistance in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants expressing a modified bacterial merA gene.

1996 • 425 citations

Development of transgenic yellow poplar for mercury phytoremediation

1998 • 421 citations

A Cadmium-Sensitive, Glutathione-Deficient Mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana

1995 • 354 citations

The genetics of metal tolerance in vascular plants

1993 • 325 citations

Genetic Evidence that Ferric Reductase Is Required for Iron Uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1990 • 296 citations

Iron transport and storage in plants

1997 • 294 citations

Molecular Characterization of a Putative Arabidopsis thaliana Copper Transporter and Its Yeast Homologue

1995 • 266 citations

Heavy metal tolerant transgenic Brassica napus L. and Nicotiana tabacum L. plants

1989 • 264 citations

Comparison of Metallothionein Gene Expression and Nonprotein Thiols in Ten Arabidopsis Ecotypes (Correlation with Copper Tolerance)

1995 • 232 citations

Bacterial resistances to inorganic mercury salts and organomercurials

1992 • 219 citations

Two Distinctly Regulated Genes Are Required for Ferric Reduction, the First Step of Iron Uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1994 • 218 citations

Expression of the pea metallothionein-like gene PsMT A in Escherichia coli and Arabidopsis thaliana and analysis of trace metal ion accumulation: Implications for PsMT A function

1992 • 204 citations

Purification and Immunological Identification of Metallothioneins 1 and 2 from Arabidopsis thaliana

1997 • 188 citations

Genetic evidence that ferric reductase is required for iron uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1990 • 181 citations

Cadmium-Sensitive Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana

1992 • 147 citations

Two distinctly regulated genes are required for ferric reduction, the first step of iron uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

1994 • 140 citations

Evidence against a role for phytochelatins in naturally selected increased cadmium tolerance in Silene vulgaris (Moench) Garcke

1992 • 136 citations

Purified Ferritin and Soybean Meal Can be Sources of Iron for Treating Iron Deficiency in Rats

1996 • 125 citations

Expression of mouse metallothionein-I gene confers cadmium resistance in transgenic tobacco plants

1994 • 122 citations

Plasmid chromate resistance and chromate reduction

1992 • 122 citations

Genetic improvement of heavy metal tolerance in plants by transfer of the yeast metallothionein gene (CUP1)

1997 • 117 citations

Increased Activity of [gamma]-Glutamylcysteine Synthetase in Tomato Cells Selected for Cadmium Tolerance

1994 • 117 citations

ATP-dependent cadmium transport by the cadA cadmium resistance determinant in everted membrane vesicles of Bacillus subtilis

1992 • 104 citations

Effects of Air Pollutants on Plants.

1978 • 100 citations

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1997 • 92 citations

Cell-Free Mercury(II)-Reducing Activity in a Plasmid-Bearing Strain of Escherichia coli

1974 • 86 citations

Expression of the YeastFREGenes in Transgenic Tobacco

1998 • 78 citations

Synthesis of a bifunctional metallothionein/β‐glucuronidase fusion protein in transgenic tobacco plants as a means of reducing leaf cadmium levels

1994 • 72 citations

Mammalian Metallothionein Functions in Plants

1987 • 69 citations

Evidence for an important role of the tonoplast in the mechanism of naturally selected zinc tolerance in Silene vulgaris

1998 • 63 citations

Tissue partitioning of cadmium in transgenic tobacco seedlings and field grown plants expressing the mouse metallothionein I gene

1992 • 52 citations

Mammalian Metallothionein Functions in Plants

1987 • 50 citations

Inheritance and Expression of the Mouse Metallothionein Gene in Tobacco

1989 • 47 citations

α-Domain of human metallothionein IA can bind to metals in transgenic tobacco plants

1994 • 41 citations

Light inducible and tissue-specific expression of a chimeric mouse metallothionein cDNA gene in tobacco

1991 • 38 citations

Construction and expression of a metallothionein–β-glucuronidase gene fusion

1994 • 36 citations

Seed-transmissable expression of mammalian metallothionein in transgenic tobacco

1988 • 32 citations

Field performance and heavy metal concentrations of transgenic flue-cured tobacco expressing a mammalian metallothionein-β-glucuronidase gene fusion

1993 • 31 citations

Phytochelatin-mediated cadmium tolerance inschizosaccharomyces pombe

1993 • 26 citations

Construction of multiple copy of α-domain gene fragment of human liver metallothionein I_A in tandem arrays and its expression in transgenic tobacco plants

1993 • 18 citations

Expression of bacterial mercuric ion reductase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1992 • 13 citations