The vision

The reserach group Plant Micronutrient Physiology is committed to uncovering mechanisms by which plants can increase the uptake of micronutrients from the soil and transfer them to edible tissues. In doing so, we can boost the nutritional quality of crop outputs, even under suboptimal climatic conditions. Our research is particularly focussed on how variation in the uptake selectivity of root cells affects iron, zinc and selenium accumulation in maize exposed to water limitation, using a combination of elemental quantification and spatial-distribution analysis, confocal microscopy, and transcriptomics.