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Antony van der Ent

Antony van der Ent

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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3629
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Overview

Antony van der Ent is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research activity spans multiple aspects of environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on plant science, pollution, and geochemistry.

The scientist has published extensively in several journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Plant and Soil
  • Metallomics
  • Ecological Research
  • Annals of Botany
  • International Journal of Phytoremediation

Van der Ent's recent papers demonstrate a focus on metal extraction, phytoextraction, and elemental analysis in plants and the environment. Selected recent papers include:

  • Review on metal extraction technologies suitable for critical metal recovery from mining and processing wastes (2022, Minerals Engineering)
  • Phytoextraction of high value elements and contaminants from mining and mineral wastes: opportunities and limitations (2020, Plant and Soil)
  • Chemical Speciation and Distribution of Cadmium in Rice Grain and Implications for Bioavailability to Humans (2020, Environmental Science & Technology)
  • Simultaneous hyperaccumulation of rare earth elements, manganese and aluminum in Phytolacca americana in response to soil properties (2021, Chemosphere)
  • Methods to Visualize Elements in Plants (2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)

The research topics covered by van der Ent involve:

  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
  • Heavy Metals in Plants
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
  • Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
  • Clay minerals and soil interactions

The scientist's work covers main research fields such as Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with subfields including Plant Science, Pollution, Analytical Chemistry, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Geochemistry and Petrology.

Van der Ent has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, who include:

  • Guillaume Echevarria
  • Peter D. Erskine
  • Philip Nti Nkrumah
  • Jean-Louis Morel
  • Alan J. M. Baker

The scientist has contributed to book publications, including one published by Springer International Publishing titled Agromining: Farming for Metals in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Hyperaccumulators of metal and metalloid trace elements: Facts and fiction

    Antony van der Ent;Alan J. M. Baker;Roger D. Reeves;A. Joseph Pollard

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

    Roger D. Reeves;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Tanguy Jaffré;Peter D. Erskine

  • Agromining: farming for metals in the future?

    Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Roger D. Reeves;Rufus L. Chaney

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

    Bastien Lange;Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Alan John Martin Baker;Alan John Martin Baker;Alan John Martin Baker;Guillaume Echevarria

  • Hyperaccumulator Plants from China: A Synthesis of the Current State of Knowledge.

    Jin-Tian Li;Hanumanth Kumar Gurajala;Longhua Wu;Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent

  • Metallophytes: the unique biological resource, its ecology and conservational status in Europe, central Africa and Latin America

    Alan J. M. Baker;Wilfried H. O. Ernst;Antony van der Ent;Francoise Malaisse

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

    Philip Nti Nkrumah;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Rufus L. Chaney;Peter D. Erskine

  • Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy as a Technique for Imaging of Elements in Plants.

    Peter M. Kopittke;Tracy Punshon;David J. Paterson;Ryan V. Tappero

  • X-ray elemental mapping techniques for elucidating the ecophysiology of hyperaccumulator plants

    Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Wojciech J. Przybyłowicz;Wojciech J. Przybyłowicz;Martin D. de Jonge;Hugh H. Harris

  • Ultramafic geoecology of South and Southeast Asia.

    M. L. Galey;A. van der Ent;A. van der Ent;M. C. M. Iqbal;N. Rajakaruna;N. Rajakaruna

  • Nickel hyperaccumulation mechanisms: a review on the current state of knowledge

    Teng-Hao-Bo Deng;Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Ye-Tao Tang;Thibault Sterckeman

  • Absorption of foliar-applied Zn in sunflower (Helianthus annuus): importance of the cuticle, stomata and trichomes

    Cui Li;Peng Wang;Peng Wang;Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Miaomiao Cheng

  • Ecology of nickel hyperaccumulator plants from ultramafic soils in Sabah (Malaysia)

    Antony van der Ent;Peter Erskine;Sukaibin Sumail

  • Nickel biopathways in tropical nickel hyperaccumulating trees from Sabah (Malaysia)

    Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Damien L. Callahan;Barry N. Noller;Jolanta Mesjasz-Przybylowicz

  • Chemical Speciation and Distribution of Cadmium in Rice Grain and Implications for Bioavailability to Humans

    Yi Gu;Peng Wang;Shen Zhang;Jun Dai

  • Phytoextraction of high value elements and contaminants from mining and mineral wastes: opportunities and limitations

    Amelia Corzo Remigio;Rufus L. Chaney;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Mansour Edraki

  • Multi-element Concentrations in Plant Parts and Fluids of Malaysian Nickel Hyperaccumulator Plants and some Economic and Ecological Considerations

    Antony van der Ent;David Mulligan

  • The accumulation and fractionation of Rare Earth Elements in hydroponically grown Phytolacca americana L.

    Ming Yuan;Mei-Na Guo;Wen-Shen Liu;Chang Liu

  • Nickel phytomining from industrial wastes: Growing nickel hyperaccumulator plants on galvanic sludges.

    Alice Tognacchini;Theresa Rosenkranz;Antony van der Ent;Gaylord Erwan Machinet

  • Global Distribution and Ecology of Hyperaccumulator Plants

    Roger D. Reeves;Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker;Alan J. M. Baker

  • X-Ray Fluorescence Ionomics of Herbarium Collections

    Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Guillaume Echevarria;Guillaume Echevarria;A. Joseph Pollard;Peter D. Erskine

  • Agromining: Farming for Metals: Extracting Unconventional Resources Using Plants

    Antony van der Ent;Guillaume Echevarria;Alan J. M. Baker;Jean Louis Morel

  • Herbarium X-ray fluorescence screening for nickel, cobalt and manganese hyperaccumulator plants in the flora of Sabah (Malaysia, Borneo Island)

    Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Ana Ocenar;Romane Tisserand;John B. Sugau

  • Nickel translocation via the phloem in the hyperaccumulator Noccaea caerulescens (Brassicaceae)

    Teng-Hao-Bo Deng;Teng-Hao-Bo Deng;Ye-Tao Tang;Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Thibault Sterckeman

  • Simultaneous hyperaccumulation of nickel and cobalt in the tree Glochidion cf. sericeum (Phyllanthaceae): elemental distribution and chemical speciation.

    Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Rachel Mak;Martin D. de Jonge;Hugh H. Harris

  • Delimiting soil chemistry thresholds for nickel hyperaccumulator plants in Sabah (Malaysia)

    Antony van der Ent;Antony van der Ent;Guillaume Echevarria;Mark Tibbett

  • Simultaneous hyperaccumulation of rare earth elements, manganese and aluminum in Phytolacca americana in response to soil properties.

    Chong Liu;Wen-Shen Liu;Antony van der Ent;Jean Louis Morel

Frequent Co-Authors

Guillaume Echevarria
Guillaume Echevarria University of Lorraine
Alan J. M. Baker
Alan J. M. Baker University of Queensland
Hugh H. Harris
Hugh H. Harris University of Adelaide
Peter M. Kopittke
Peter M. Kopittke University of Queensland
Rufus L. Chaney
Rufus L. Chaney US Department of Agriculture
Rongliang Qiu
Rongliang Qiu South China Agricultural University
Marie-Odile Simonnot
Marie-Odile Simonnot University of Lorraine
Enzo Lombi
Enzo Lombi University of South Australia
Robert S. Boyd
Robert S. Boyd Auburn University
Henk Schat
Henk Schat Wageningen University & Research

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