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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · 1d

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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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · 3d

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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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · 9d

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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Metal_Hype_LRSV @metal-hype.bsky.social · 16d

...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

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Aug 28

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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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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Aug 28

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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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Aug 28

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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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 16

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.

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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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Aug 14

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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Annals of Botany @annbot.bsky.social · Aug 1

🌿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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#PlantScience #Metallophytes #Phytoremediation #AoBpapers

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 31

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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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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 24

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.

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 24

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

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 24

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.

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 24

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.

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 12

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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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jul 6

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

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jun 8

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

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

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Antony van der Ent @antonyent.bsky.social · Jun 6

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.

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