Alan Baker

A global forum on ultramafic ecosystems: from ultramafic ecology to rehabilitation of degraded environments

Guillaume Echevarria, Alan JM Baker, Robert S Boyd, Antony van der Ent, Takafumi Mizuno, Nishanta Rajakaruna, Shota Sakaguchi, Aida Bani

Journal article  |  2018  |  ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The 9th International Conference on Serpentine Ecology (ICSE) was held in Tirana and Pogradec (Albania) from June 5 to 9, 2017. Mo..

A global database for plants that hyperaccumulate metal and metalloid trace elements

Roger D Reeves, Alan JM Baker, Tanguy Jaffre, Peter D Erskine, Guillaume Echevarria, Antony van der Ent

Journal article  |  2018  |  NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Mitigation of Cd accumulation in paddy rice (Oryza sativa L.) by Fe fertilization

Zhe Chen, Ye-Tao Tang, Ai-Jun Yao, Jian Cao, Zhuo-Hao Wu, Zhe-Ran Peng, Shi-Zhong Wang, Shi Xiao, Alan JM Baker, Rong-Liang Qiu

Journal article  |  2017  |  ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Cadmium uptake in rice is believed to be mediated by the Fe transport system. Phyto-available Cd can be changed by Fe fertilizatio..

Mechanisms of Fe biofortification and mitigation of Cd accumulation in rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown hydroponically with Fe chelate fertilization

Zhe Chen, Ye-Tao Tang, Can Zhou, Shu-Ting Xie, Shi Xiao, Alan JM Baker, Rong-Liang Qiu

Journal article  |  2017  |  CHEMOSPHERE

Cadmium contaminated rice from China has become a global food safety issue. Some research has suggested that chelate addition to s..

Soil physicochemical factors as environmental filters for spontaneous plant colonization of abandoned tailing dumps.

Rosanna Ginocchio, Pedro León-Lobos, Eduardo Carlos Arellano, Vinka Anic, Juan Francisco Ovalle, Alan John Martin Baker

Journal article  |  2017  |  Environ Sci Pollut Res Int

Abandoned tailing dumps (ATDs) offer an opportunity to identify the main physicochemical filters that determine colonization of ve..

Copper and cobalt accumulation in plants: a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge

Bastien Lange, Antony van der Ent, Alan John Martin Baker, Guillaume Echevarria, Gregory Mahy, Francois Malaisse, Pierre Meerts, Olivier Pourret, Nathalie Verbruggen, Michel-Pierre Faucon

Journal article  |  2017  |  NEW PHYTOLOGIST

This review synthesizes contemporary understanding of copper-cobalt (Cu-Co) tolerance and accumulation in plants. Accumulation of ..

Current status and challenges in developing nickel phytomining: an agronomic perspective

Philip Nti Nkrumah, Alan JM Baker, Rufus L Chaney, Peter D Erskine, Guillaume Echevarria, Jean Louis Morel, Antony van der Ent

Journal article  |  2016  |  PLANT AND SOIL

Background: Nickel (Ni) phytomining operations cultivate hyperaccumulator plants (‘metal crops’) on Ni-rich (ultramafic) soils, fo..

Commentary: Toward a more physiologically and evolutionarily relevant definition of metal hyperaccumulation in plants

Antony van der Ent, Alan JM Baker, Roger D Reeves, A Joseph Pollard, Henk Schat

Journal article  |  2015  |  FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Irrigation water quality influences heavy metal uptake by willows in biosolids

W Scott Laidlaw, Alan JM Baker, David Gregory, Stefan K Arndt

Journal article  |  2015  |  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Phytoextraction is an effective method to remediate heavy metal contaminated landscapes but is often applied for single metal cont..

Transcriptomic screening for cyclotides and other cysteine-rich proteins in the metallophyte Viola baoshanensis

Jun Zhang, Jintian Li, Zebo Huang, Bing Yang, Xiaojie Zhang, Dehua Li, David J Craik, Alan JM Baker, Wensheng Shu, Bin Liao

Journal article  |  2015  |  JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Cysteine (Cys)-rich proteins (CRPs) are frequently associated with plant defense and stress resistance. Viola baoshanensis is a ca..