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Applications of Nanoparticles for Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Scavenging in Photosynthetic Systems

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Under aerobic conditions, excessive illumination results in the photogeneration of reactive oxygen species (ROS) responsible for protein damage and photo-inhibition during photosynthesis. We explore the effects of nanoceria (NC), a regenerative ROS scaveng ...

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2015

Linking soil microbial communities to vascular plant abundance along a climate gradient

Alexandre Buttler, Edward Mitchell, Luca Bragazza, Richard David Bardgett

The ongoing expansion of shrub cover in response to climate change represents a unique opportunity to explore the link between soil microbial communities and vegetation changes. This link is particularly important in peatlands where shrub expansion is expe ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Low-cost wireless sensor networks for dryland irrigation agriculture in Burkina Faso

Jean-Claude Bolay, Alexandre Repetti, Theo Baracchini, Clémence Noëlie Marie Ranquet Bouleau

Dryland irrigation is a major concern in arid and semiarid regions where agricultural output is low and water a scarce and vital resource. Irrigation efficiency and sustainability are, therefore, of paramount importance in these regions, where small farmer ...

Springer International Publishing2015

Fundamental Constraints on the Abundances of Chemotaxis Proteins

Anne-Florence Raphaëlle Bitbol

Flagellated bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, perform directed motion in gradients of concentration of attractants and repellents in a process called chemotaxis. The E. coli chemotaxis signaling pathway is a model for signal transduction, but it has uniq ...

Elsevier BV2015

Plant detoxification capacity of xenobiotic compounds as limiting factor for phytoremediation

Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel

Plants have efficient mechanisms for detoxification and sequestration of xenobiotic chemicals and trace elements, basis of any phytoremediation process. However the amount of pollutants that can be accumulated and detoxified without disrupting the primary ...

2014

Phytoremediation of polluted soils: hype, hope and facts

Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel

Different plant species, ecotypes, varieties or cultivars can be selected, tailored and harnessed for the remediation of polluted soils, sites and brownfields, as well as for the phytotreatment of domestic or industrial wastewater. Several approaches are p ...

2014

Climate change, vegetation dynamics and carbon cycling in peatlands: the role of vascular plants in CO2 sequestration

Konstantin Svetlozarov Gavazov, Robert Matthew Mills, Luca Bragazza, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek

The project VeganPeat is described in this poster. IN particular, the workpackage oncerning the quantification of 14C in soil respired CO2 to detect the role of vascular plant abundance in promoting the decomposition of old organic matter in two peatlands ...

2014

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