METALLOPHYTES: An integrated approach towards removal by plants of toxic metals from polluted soils

• Unité de recherche: PCRD EU
• Numéro de projet: 02.0447
• Titre du projet anglais: METALLOPHYTES: An integrated approach towards removal by plants of toxic metals from polluted soils

Mots-clé (Anglais)

Biotechnology; Environmental Protection; Innovation; Technology Transfer; Life Sciences; Medicine; Health; Waste Management

Autre Numéro de projet (Anglais)

EU project number: QLK-2000-00479

Programme de recherche (Anglais)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.3 The 'cell factory'

Description succincte (Anglais)

See abstract

Autres indications (Anglais)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Universität Zürich
Institut für Pflanzenbiologie
Labor für molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie

Résumé des résultats (Abstract) (Anglais)

By employing an ecologically and economically beneficial strategy we expect to reclaim land currently deemed unusable or agriculture in the European Union. The project aims to generate plants for safe, cost-effective phyto-extraction of toxic metals from soils (phytoremediation). Genes essential for metal tolerance and homeostasis will be determined by using integrated physiological, molecular, biochemical and electrophysiologial approaches. The final result will be transgenic Festuca with improved heavy metal tolerance and/or tolerance.

Références bases de données (Anglais)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 02.0447