COST Action 19116
Trace metal metabolism in plants -
PLANTMETALS


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Teaching material

The following table is meant to host all teaching materials of traning schools, etc. approved by the authors for release on this website. It is only for personal use, and other use needs copyright approval!

Date
Description
6 October
2024
Brochure for children: key aim is to raise awareness about plants in
kids in primary school. To convey its message, it uses a strong narrative and pictures. It has been produced in the following languages, please click on the links to download a high-resolution pdf file for your own re-distribution (allowed freely WITHOUT editing!). The original version is the English one, the others (so far only available for volume 1) are translations made by our members as written in the editorial of each version.
Volume 1: The Mystery inside the plants
English (pdf)
all other languages (zip folder with pdf files inside) - translations improved from the 2023 version

Volume 2: The quest for iron
English (pdf)

Volume 3: The plant breeder
English (pdf)
6 October 2024
Practical guidelines for farmers: efforts of PLANTMETALS WG4 towards a list of crop plants screened and certified for low content of potential toxic elements. Examples shown for Cd in rice, and explanation of our further activities. Download as pdf
31 October 2023
10 min video with shots from our labs, from synchrotrons and outside locations, explaining the importance, methods and output of our research. It is an update of the 7min video from 2022 with added footage from field work and laboratories provided by our members, and was entirely re-cut and re-assembled for optimised matching of explanations with video material. It is currently available at our YouTube channel and you can download the original full-resolution mp4 file here for your own re-distribution (allowed freely WITHOUT editing!):
Czech
English
31 October 2023
Roll-ups and poster illustrating the aims and output of the PLANTMETALS COST Action: zip folder for download
31 October 2023
Brochure for children: key aim is to raise awareness about plants in
kids in primary school. To convey its message, it uses a strong narrative and pictures. It has been produced in the following languages, please click on the links to download a high-resolution pdf file for your own re-distribution (allowed freely WITHOUT editing!). The original version is the English one, the others are translations made by our members as written in the editorial of each version.
Albanian
Azerbaijani
Bosnian
Chinese
Croatian
Czech
English (official main version)
French
German
Hindi
Italian
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Serbian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Turkish
Urdu
31 October 2022 Videos explaining the PLANTMETALS COST Action to the general public, suitable for introducing the Action to potential new members and stakeholders. Two versions are available by download from the following links:
1) A 3min "talking head" video that explains in an easy way why trace metals are both, required and toxic, for plants and humans. It t is aimed at YouTube and social media. It is currently available at our YouTube channel and you can download the original full-resolution mp4 file HERE for your own re-distribution (allowed freely WITHOUT editing!)
2) 7 min video with shots from our labs, from synchrotrons and outside locations, explaining the importance, methods and output of our research. It is currently available at our YouTube channel and you can download the original full-resolution mp4 file HERE for your own re-distribution (allowed freely WITHOUT editing!)
26 October 2021
Flyer explaining the PLANTMETALS COST Action to the general public, suitable for introducing the Action to potential new members and stakeholders. Printed copies are available at from the MC members of each member country.
Language variants for download and self-printing:
Croatian
Czech
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Italian
Spanish
Turkish


Press releases

The following table is meant to host all press releases of the Action, approved by the authors for release on this website. Unless mentioned in the description of the individual item, re-distribution is permitted with acknowledgement of the authors&source.

Date Description
22 October 2020
Press release of the host institution introducing the PLANTMETALS Action (in English and Czech)
26 October 2020
Broadcast of the South Bohemian TV about the COST Action PLANTMETALS (in Czech)
30 October 2020
Press release of the Czech Academy of Sciences introducing the PLANTMETALS Action (in Czech)
3 December 2020
Press release of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum introducing the PLANTMETALS Action (in German)
27 August 2021
Press release of the host institution about the kick-off meeting of the Action


Protocols, Information for stakeholders, etc

The following table is meant to host all protocols published by the Action as instructions to members and the public e.g. for improving handling of scientific methods of agricultural practices. They are approved by the authors for release on this website. Unless mentioned in the description of the individual item, re-distribution is permitted with acknowledgement of the authors&source except for methods+protocols published in scientific books+journals as they are subject to copyright of the publisher.

Date Description
2020
Method for analysing trace metal distribution in plant tissues via lab-based µXRF imaging
2019
Method for analysing binding of metals to proteins and low MW ligands via metal-free HPLC (SEC and AEC) coupled to sector-field ICP-MS
2019
Method for analysing effects of metal stress on photosynthetic light reactions by direct fast imaging of chlorophyll fluorescence kinetics


Advice to better direct researchers to the proper metallomics facilities and methods

The following table shows people within this Action whom you may contact for getting advice on access to metallomics facilities within our network or to which members of our network have close contact.

Person, with link to personal or COST website for contact details
Description of the facility or methods on which this person can give advice
Hendrik Küpper
- X-ray spectroscopy: In-house µXRF (2D), µXRF and µXAS tomography and bulk XAS at European synchrotron faclilities (DESY, Diamond, ESRF)
- Analysing the binding of metals to proteins and low MW ligands via HPLC (AEC, HIC, SEC) coupled online to ICP-MS
Gerald Falkenberg
Synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy imaging at DESY, P06: micro-XRF and micro-XANES mapping and tomography
beamline manager and project review panel secretary at P06 (scanning imaging beamline), can coordinate help on questions for access to bulk EXAFS beamlines P64/P64
Geraldine Sarret
Contact for X-ray spectroscopy and imaging,  incl sample preparation and sample environments: bulk XAS, µXRF-µXAS, at European synchrotron faclilities (Soleil and ESRF)
Matthias Wiggenhauser
Contact for metal isotope applications including tracer techniques for radioisotopes (e.g., 109Cd, 65Zn) and enriched stable isotopes (e.g., 111Cd, 67Zn) to trace metal sources in plants and soil-fertilizer-plant systems using multicollector ICP-MS.

 

 



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