Antony van der Ent
@antonyent.bsky.social
Globetrotting Hyperaccumulator Plant Explorer
High-performance living plant collections require a globally integrated data ecosystem to meet twenty-first-century challenges
Botanic gardens steward at least 105,634 species—around 30% of all land plant diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Botanic gardens steward at least 105,634 species—around 30% of all land plant diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
High-performance living plant collections require a globally integrated data ecosystem to meet twenty-first-century challenges
Botanic gardens steward at least 105,634 species—around 30% of all land plant diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Botanic gardens steward at least 105,634 species—around 30% of all land plant diversity.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Deep-sea worms fight poison with poison to survive in hydrothermal vents | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Deep-sea worms fight poison with poison to survive in hydrothermal vents
Combining arsenic and sulfide in skin cells forms a less toxic mineral—and turns the animals bright yellow
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January 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Deep-sea worms fight poison with poison to survive in hydrothermal vents | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Call for manuscript submissions for a new special issue in Environmental and Experimental Botany entitled "Ecophysiology of metal and metalloid hyperaccumulator plants".
Submission deadline is 1 August 2026
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Submission deadline is 1 August 2026
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January 5, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Call for manuscript submissions for a new special issue in Environmental and Experimental Botany entitled "Ecophysiology of metal and metalloid hyperaccumulator plants".
Submission deadline is 1 August 2026
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Submission deadline is 1 August 2026
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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...
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 ...
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October 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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 - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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...
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October 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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/...
September 29, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Engineering autonomously luminescent plants using fungal bioluminescence pathway - Yu et al. - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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...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/...
AToUT – TIRIS – Toulouse's Science In and For Society
tiris.univ-toulouse.fr
September 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
...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/...
Microbial Phosphate Solubilization Promotes Rare Earth Element Accumulation in the Hyperaccumulator Dicranopteris linearis from China | Environmental Science & Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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...
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August 28, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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/...
August 28, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Physiological Effect of Thallium in the Facultative Hyperaccumulator Silene latifolia - Regini - 2025 - Physiologia Plantarum - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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.
But conservationists say modern medicine’s dependence on this bloodletting is upending a globe-spanning ecosystem.
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.
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August 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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.
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 - Aceae - PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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...
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August 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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....
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🌿Check the newly published article ‘Surviving Allchar: arsenic and thallium tolerance and distribution in Viola metallophytes’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Ksenija Jakovljević and co-authors 🧵(1/7)
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August 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🌿Check the newly published article ‘Surviving Allchar: arsenic and thallium tolerance and distribution in Viola metallophytes’ in @annbot.bsky.social by Ksenija Jakovljević and co-authors 🧵(1/7)
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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.
July 24, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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).
July 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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.
July 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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.
July 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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.
July 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/w...
The Wartime Mining Boom Exporting Rare Earths, and Toxins
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July 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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.
July 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
A puddle full with yellow-bellied toads (Bombina variegata) in North Macedonia.
Spotted a beautiful male European green lizard (Lacerta viridis).
July 6, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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.
July 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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.
July 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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.
July 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Allchar is the most toxic (natural) site in the World with extraordinary high arsenic and thallium concentrations in soils.