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Overview

Stephan Clemens is affiliated with the University of Bayreuth in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on interactions between plants and micronutrients, encompassing aspects of agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science.

The scientist's work has appeared frequently in several publication venues. The most notable among these are:

  • New Phytologist
  • The Plant Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials

Key areas of study for Clemens include plant science, nutrition and dietetics, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, pollution, and environmental chemistry. Their research topics cover plant micronutrient interactions and effects, plant stress responses and tolerance, trace elements in health, aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals, heavy metals in the environment, arsenic contamination and mitigation, and heavy metal exposure and toxicity.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Clemens include:

  • "Europe's Farm to Fork Strategy and Its Commitment to Biotechnology and Organic Farming: Conflicting or Complementary Goals?" (2021) published in Trends in Plant Science
  • "Micronutrient homeostasis in plants for more sustainable agriculture and healthier human nutrition" (2022) published in Journal of Experimental Botany
  • "The cell biology of zinc" (2021) published in Journal of Experimental Botany
  • "The two copies of the zinc and cadmiumZIP6transporter ofArabidopsis hallerihave distinct effects on cadmium tolerance" (2020) published in Plant Cell & Environment
  • "A curated list of genes that affect the plant ionome" (2020) published in Plant Direct

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Clemens include:

  • Michael Weber
  • Marc Hanikenne
  • Ludwig Richtmann
  • Noémie Thiébaut
  • Manon Sarthou

Best Publications

  • Toxic metal accumulation, responses to exposure and mechanisms of tolerance in plants

    Stephan Clemens

  • Molecular mechanisms of plant metal tolerance and homeostasis.

    Stephan Clemens

  • A long way ahead: understanding and engineering plant metal accumulation.

    Stephan Clemens;Michael G Palmgren;Ute Krämer

  • Plant science: the key to preventing slow cadmium poisoning

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

  • Toxic Heavy Metal and Metalloid Accumulation in Crop Plants and Foods

    Stephan Clemens;Jian Feng Ma

  • Tolerance to toxic metals by a gene family of phytochelatin synthases from plants and yeast.

    Stephan Clemens;Eugene J. Kim;Dieter Neumann;Julian I. Schroeder

  • Zinc biofortification of cereals: problems and solutions

    Michael G. Palmgren;Stephan Clemens;Lorraine E. Williams;Ute Krämer

  • Comparative microarray analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana and Arabidopsis halleri roots identifies nicotianamine synthase, a ZIP transporter and other genes as potential metal hyperaccumulation factors

    Michael Weber;Emiko Harada;Christoph Vess;Edda von Roepenack-Lahaye

  • The plant cDNA LCT1 mediates the uptake of calcium and cadmium in yeast

    Stephan Clemens;Danuta Maria Antosiewicz;Danuta Maria Antosiewicz;John M. Ward;John M. Ward;Daniel P. Schachtman

  • Evolution and function of phytochelatin synthases

    Stephan Clemens

  • Crystal Structure of a Hypoallergenic Isoform of the Major Birch Pollen Allergen Bet v 1 and its Likely Biological Function as a Plant Steroid Carrier

    Zora Marković-Housley;Massimo Degano;Doriano Lamba;Edda von Roepenack-Lahaye

  • Comparative transcriptome analysis of toxic metal responses in Arabidopsis thaliana and the Cd2+-hypertolerant facultative metallophyte Arabidopsis halleri

    Michael Weber;Aleksandra Trampczynska;Stephan Clemens

  • Arabidopsis IRT3 is a zinc-regulated and plasma membrane localized zinc/iron transporter.

    Ya-Fen Lin;Hong-Ming Liang;Shu-Yi Yang;Annegret Boch

  • Proteome changes in Arabidopsis thaliana roots upon exposure to Cd2

    Udo Roth;Edda von Roepenack-Lahaye;Stephan Clemens

  • Elevated Nicotianamine Levels in Arabidopsis halleri Roots Play a Key Role in Zinc Hyperaccumulation

    Ulrich Deinlein;Michael Weber;Holger Schmidt;Stefan Rensch

  • Phytochelatin Synthesis Is Essential for the Detoxification of Excess Zinc and Contributes Significantly to the Accumulation of Zinc

    Pierre Tennstedt;Daniel Peisker;Christoph Böttcher;Aleksandra Trampczynska

  • Profiling of Arabidopsis Secondary Metabolites by Capillary Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Electrospray Ionization Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry

    Edda von Roepenack-Lahaye;Thomas Degenkolb;Michael Zerjeski;Mathias Franz

  • MYB10 and MYB72 are required for growth under iron-limiting conditions.

    Christine M. Palmer;Maria N. Hindt;Holger Schmidt;Stephan Clemens

  • Functions and Homeostasis of Zinc, Copper, and Nickel in plants

    Ute Krämer;Stephan Clemens

  • Caenorhabditis elegans expresses a functional phytochelatin synthase

    Stephan Clemens;Julian I. Schroeder;Thomas Degenkolb

Frequent Co-Authors

Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Nina Buchmann
Nina Buchmann ETH Zurich
Erwin Beck
Erwin Beck University of Bayreuth
Ute Krämer
Ute Krämer Ruhr University Bochum
Dierk Scheel
Dierk Scheel Leibniz Association
Julian I. Schroeder
Julian I. Schroeder University of California, San Diego
Jan K. Schjoerring
Jan K. Schjoerring University of Copenhagen
Andreas J. Meyer
Andreas J. Meyer University of Bonn
Nathalie Verbruggen
Nathalie Verbruggen Université Libre de Bruxelles

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