Inorganic arsenic is a carcinogen, and its ingestion through foods such as rice presents a
significant risk to human health. Plants chemically reduce arsenate to arsenite. Using …

Endogenous plant arsenate reductase (ACR) activity converts arsenate to arsenite in roots,
immobilizing arsenic below ground. By blocking this activity, we hoped to construct plants …

The enormous amount of environmental arsenic was a major factor in determining the
biochemistry of incipient life forms early in the Earth's history. The most abundant chemical …

Arsenic is toxic to all life forms and is a potent carcinogen. Its accumulation in crop plants
and subsequent consumption poses a serious threat to public health worldwide. Recent …

Arsenic contamination has a negative impact on crop cultivation and on human health. As
yet, no proteins have been identified in plants that mediate the extrusion of arsenic. Here, we …

Rice is a major dietary source of the toxic metalloid arsenic (As). Reducing its accumulation
in rice (Oryza sativa) grain is of critical importance to food safety. Rice roots take up arsenate …

Soil contamination with arsenic (As) can cause phytotoxicity and elevated As accumulation
in rice grain. Here, we used a forward genetics approach to investigate the mechanism of …

Arsenic (As) is an important environmental and food‐chain toxin. We investigated the key
components controlling As accumulation and tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. We tested …

The fern Pteris vittata tolerates and hyperaccumulates exceptionally high levels of the toxic
metalloid arsenic, and this trait appears unique to the Pteridaceae. Once taken up by the …

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) feeds∼ 3 billion people. Due to the wide occurrence of arsenic (As)
pollution in paddy soils and its efficient plant uptake, As in rice grains presents health risks …