🌿SPECIAL ISSUE REVIEW🌿 Silicon enhances plant resilience to abiotic stresses by modulating physiological & molecular responses, particularly under drought and metal(loid) toxicity & is a potential tool for sustainable agriculture - Mora-Sanhueza et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... #PlantScience 🧪

Planned EV Battery Plant Threatens Uncontacted Tribe in Indonesia A planned EV battery factory in Indonesia poses a grave threat to an uncontacted tribe, a watchdog warns. The $6 billion megaproject, backed by Chinese battery maker CATL, will make use of the abundant reserves of nickel on…

Planned EV Battery Plant Is a ‘Death Sentence’ for Uncontacted Indonesian Tribe Indonesia’s nickel rush threatens the lush forests of Halmahera and the people that still live within them.. @cosmicmeta.io #Eco https://u2m.io/5PhEuDqx

A Philippine plant, Rinorea niccolifera, absorbs extreme nickel levels, up to 18,000 mg/kg in its leaves. This rare hyperaccumulator could unlock sustainable “phytomining,” turning plants into tools for metal recovery & soil cleanup. #RinoreaNiccolifera #TheLolgic #Philippines

That's where "phytomining" enters the picture. This nascent industry is using special metal-accumulating plants to develop a less destructive way to mine--or should we say farm?--metals.

Phytomining plant biomass: hyperaccumulators of arsenic, cadmium, cerium, copper, cobalt, lanthanum, manganese, neodymium, nickel, selenium, thallium, and zinc, up to 5% of plant weight.

The molecular basis of the synergistic toxicity of nickel and copper, common environmental co-contaminants | Applied and Environmental Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Researchers from France and the Netherlands demonstrated that the plant Bornmuellera emarginata can hyperaccumulate nickel with minimal stress, even in extremely high nickel concentrations. #SciComm #SciNews #PlantScience #PlantBiology #Botany sciworthy.com/metal-tolera...

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...

Synergistic response of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and hyphosphere microbiome to arsenic contamination in agricultural soils Ji et al. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CPM2AD...

✨ Paper spotlight ✨ (🧵 1/7) … Root cell wall plasticity in iron homeostasis: An overlooked frontier in plant nutrition nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It is out! I m so happy for my students, colleagues and collaborators. It was a long journey 😊 Gain and loss of gene function shaped the nickel hyperaccumulation trait in Noccaea caerulescens url: academic.oup.com/plcell/artic...

More #Phyllanthaceae strangeness! Many species of Phyllanthus are hyperaccumulators of nickel (meaning they store Ni in their tissues at concentrations very much greater than those of the surrounding soils).

Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That - bioGraphic www.biographic.com/critical-min...

We would be happy to host a postdoctoral fellow with a projet related to metal homeostasis and accumulation in plants! see the @utoulouse.bsky.social program AToUT tiris.univ-toulouse.fr/en/programs/...

If you are interested on #nickel #hyperaccumulation and its relation with leaf economics spectrum and water economy in plants, check out our latest paper, just published in Plant and Soil @univlorraine.bsky.social @uvigo.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Lithium in plants - Garcia‐Daga - New Phytologist - Wiley Online Library nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

...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/...

Back online after few months of silence... We had time to finalize our last paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... where we describe the genome assembly of Noccaea caerulescens and provide new evidence for the role of IRT1 in nickel hyperaccumulation

In a paper we just published we found that nickel #hyperaccumulation may have a role in drought tolerance. Now, a paper authored by a team led by the amazing Cristina Gonelli has found that nickel improves the stomatal opening in serpentine populations of the non-hyperaccumulator #Silene_paradoxa.

#Viewpoint: Harnessing hyperaccumulator #plants to recover technology-critical #metals: where are we at? Elizabeth Rylott & Antony van der Ent 👇 📖 nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LatestIssue

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

🎉We invite you to meet Antony van der Ent co-author of the recently published article botany.fyi/LkDqcy Get to know him and his passion for ecophysiology and biogeochemistry in this thread 🧵. See alt text for the full answers (1/10)

Very nice work from @ignaciorubiosomoza.bsky.social and colleagues on the role of a fungal sRNA to promote AM symbiosis ☘️🍄. Just out @newphyt.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Article: "Accelerated succession in Himalayan alpine treelines under climatic warming" rdcu.be/d0Izp Climate warming is accelerating successional dynamics, with late-successional species rapidly outcompeting pioneer species at Himalayan treeline ecotones. #PlantScience

Interspecific trait differences drive plant community responses on serpentine soils - Delhaye - Journal of Ecology - Wiley Online Library besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/NHWQ3K...