Root Ecophysiology
Phytotechnologies to promote sustainable land use and improve food safety
Chairman: Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, EPFL Lausanne (http://lbewww.epfl.ch)
Funded from 2004 onwards
http://www.gre.ac.uk/cost859/TC.html
COST 859 is network of co-ordinated national research projects, aiming on the understanding and controlling the fate of pollutants in plants and food, non-food and technical crops. It further wants to optimise the remediation and controlling capacities of plants and thus make phytotechnologies more economically and socially attractive and to decrease the level and transfer of contaminants along the food chain.
This COST action will enable significant progress to be made towards the sustainable use of land and water resources, the restoration of contaminated sites and the future supply of safe and fortified food.
Peter Schröder is national delegate in this COST action and chairperson of WG2: Exploiting “-omics” approaches in phytotechnologies; co-chairman Dr. Nathalie Verbruggen, Brussels
Publications related to this COST action:
Schröder, P. and Hartmann A. (2003) Global Soils: Germany - New developments in rhizosphere research. J. Soils & Sediments 3(4), 227-228.
Schröder, P., Huber B., and Munch, J.C. (2003) Making modern agriculture sustainable: FAM Research Network on Agroecosystems. J. Soils & Sediments 3(4), 223-226.
Golan-Goldhirsh, A., Barazani, O., Nepovim, A., Soudek, P., Smrcek, S., Dufkova, L., Krenkova, S., Yrjala , K., Schröder, P., and Vanek, T. (2004) Plant Response to Heavy Metals and Organic Pollutants in Cell Culture and at Whole Plant Level. J. Soils & Sediments (2) 133-140
Nepovim, A., Podlipna, R., Soudek, P., Schröder, P., Vanek, T. (2004) Effects of heavy metals and nitroaromatic compounds on horseradish glutathione S-transferase and peroxidase. Chemosphere 57, 1007-1015.
Schröder, P., (2005) Exploiting Plant Metabolism for Phytoremediation of Organic Xenobiotics. In: Phytoremediation: Methods and Reviews. N. Willey (Ed), Humana Press NJ, USA
