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Overview

Nathalie Verbruggen is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium and works primarily in the Agricultural and Biological Sciences field, with a specific focus on Plant Science. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Pollution, Soil Science, and Agronomy and Crop Science. The main scientific topics addressed in their work include:

  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals
  • Light effects on plants
  • Heavy metals in environment
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism

Verbruggen has published extensively, with a notable number of articles appearing in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), New Phytologist, Journal of Experimental Botany, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, and Plant Cell & Environment.

Their recent published papers include:

  • Magnesium maintains the length of the circadian period in Arabidopsis, 2021, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Adaptation of Arabidopsis halleri to extreme metal pollution through limited metal accumulation involves changes in cell wall composition and metal homeostasis, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Different strategies of Cd tolerance and accumulation in Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis arenosa, 2020, Plant Cell & Environment
  • Essential trace metals in plant responses to heat stress, 2021, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Exploiting Genomic Features to Improve the Prediction of Transcription Factor-Binding Sites in Plants, 2022, Plant and Cell Physiology

Their collaborative work shows frequent partnerships with researchers including Marc Hanikenne, Massimiliano Corso, Noémie Thiébaut, Manon Sarthou, and Stéphanie Boutet.

Best Publications

  • Proline accumulation in plants: a review.

    Nathalie Verbruggen;Christian Hermans

  • How do plants respond to nutrient shortage by biomass allocation

    Christian Hermans;John P. Hammond;Philip J. White;Nathalie Verbruggen

  • Molecular mechanisms of metal hyperaccumulation in plants

    Nathalie Verbruggen;Christian Hermans;Henk Schat

  • Plant science: the key to preventing slow cadmium poisoning

    Stephan Clemens;Mark G.M. Aarts;Sébastien Thomine;Nathalie Verbruggen

  • Mechanisms to cope with arsenic or cadmium excess in plants.

    Nathalie Verbruggen;Christian Hermans;Henk Schat

  • Small heat shock proteins and stress tolerance in plants.

    Weining Sun;Marc Van Montagu;Nathalie Verbruggen

  • Response to copper excess in Arabidopsis thaliana: Impact on the root system architecture, hormone distribution, lignin accumulation and mineral profile

    Hélène Lequeux;Christian Hermans;Stanley Lutts;Nathalie Verbruggen

  • At‐HSP17.6A, encoding a small heat‐shock protein in Arabidopsis, can enhance osmotolerance upon overexpression

    Weining Sun;Catherine Bernard;Brigitte Van De Cotte;Marc Van Montagu

  • Physiological and molecular responses to magnesium nutritional imbalance in plants

    Nathalie Verbruggen;Christian Hermans

  • A Major Quantitative Trait Locus for Cadmium Tolerance in Arabidopsis halleri Colocalizes with HMA4, a Gene Encoding a Heavy Metal ATPase

    Mikael Courbot;Glenda Willems;Patrick Motte;Samuel Arvidsson

  • Natural variation in cadmium tolerance and its relationship to metal hyperaccumulation for seven populations of Thlaspi caerulescens from western Europe

    N. Roosens;N. Roosens;N. Verbruggen;P. Meerts;P. Ximénez-Embún

  • Physiological characterization of Mg deficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Christian Hermans;Nathalie Verbruggen

  • Physiological characterisation of magnesium deficiency in sugar beet: acclimation to low magnesium differentially affects photosystems I and II

    Christian Roger Hermans;Christian Roger Hermans;Christian Roger Hermans;Giles N. Johnson;Reto Strasser;Nathalie Verbruggen

  • Osmoregulation of a Pyrroline-5-Carboxylate Reductase Gene in Arabidopsis thaliana

    N. Verbruggen;R. Villarroel;M. Van Montagu

  • Isolation, characterization, and chromosomal location of a gene encoding the Δ1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate synthetase in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Arnould Savouré;Samir Jaoua;Xue-Jun Hua;Wilson Ardiles

  • Environmental and developmental signals modulate proline homeostasis: evidence for a negative transcriptional regulator

    N Verbruggen;X J Hua;M May;M Van Montagu

  • Genetic basis of Cd tolerance and hyperaccumulation in Arabidopsis halleri

    Valérie Bert;Pierre Jacques Meerts;Pierre Saumitou-Laprade;Pietrino Salis

  • Expression of cell cycle regulatory genes and morphological alterations in response to salt stress in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Sylvia Burssens;Kristiina Himanen;Brigitte van de Cotte;Tom Beeckman

  • 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

  • Magnesium deficiency in sugar beets alters sugar partitioning and phloem loading in young mature leaves.

    Christian Roger Hermans;Christian Roger Hermans;Christian Roger Hermans;Fabienne Bourgis;Mireille Faucher;Reto Strasser

  • A novel CPx-ATPase from the cadmium hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens

    Catherine Bernard;Nancy Roosens;Pierre Czernic;Michel Lebrun

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Saumitou-Laprade
Pierre Saumitou-Laprade University of Lille
Pierre Jacques Meerts
Pierre Jacques Meerts Université Libre de Bruxelles
Arnould Savouré
Arnould Savouré Sorbonne University
Dirk Inzé
Dirk Inzé Ghent University
Grégory Mahy
Grégory Mahy Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
M. Van Montagu
M. Van Montagu Ghent University
Reto J. Strasser
Reto J. Strasser University of Geneva
Géraldine Sarret
Géraldine Sarret Grenoble Alpes University
Marnik Vuylsteke
Marnik Vuylsteke Ghent University

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