Mineral nutrition and oxidative stress

Group leader: Christian Dubos
INRAE Research Director

 

 

Key words

Iron, Plants, Transcription, Coumarins, Fe-S clusters, Redox

Presentation

Due to their sessile life mode, plants must face and adapt to a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses throughout their life cycle. Understanding the molecular and physiological mechanisms that modulate crop productivity under adverse environmental conditions is a major challenge for the agriculture of tomorrow. Such knowledge would be of great importance to develop strategies aiming at maintaining productivity using fewer inputs or at developing crop farming in unfavourable areas. These issues are at the heart of our research activities that focus on the control of iron (Fe) homeostasis in plants as well as on the characterization of the mechanisms involved in its assimilation.

Iron is the micronutrient that is the most often deficient in human diet, as about 1 billion people worldwide suffer from iron deficiency anaemia (IDA) [1]. It is predicted that climate changes might reinforced such nutritional deficiency at the global scale. For instance, it has been shown that iron level (and other major micronutrients) in most edible plant species decreases while atmospheric CO2 concentration increases [2]. Thus, maintaining, or even improving, the ability of plants to absorb and store iron without the use of exogenous fertilizers would ensure a balanced, safer diet for a worldwide growing population facing severe climate changes. This is even more important since all iron stocks available in human food come directly or indirectly (animal sources) from plants. The entry of iron into the food chain is therefore an important question of public health that cannot be solved without a precise understanding of the molecular mechanisms that control iron homeostasis in plants as well as the assimilation of this micronutrient.

Iron is also an essential micronutrient for plant growth and development. Iron acts as a co-factor in many biological processes involving electron transfer such as photosynthesis, respiration, DNA synthesis or the assimilation of nitrogen and sulphur. The availability of this micronutrient in soils has a direct influence on the productivity of crop species, as well as on the quality of their by-products [3]. Although iron is one of the most abundant elements in soils, it is generally poorly available to plants because it is mainly present in the form of insoluble oxides and hydroxides. This is the case, for example, in calcareous soils that account for one third of the world’s cultivated lands. As a consequence, plants growing on these soils suffer from iron deficiency that can affect their survival. On the other hand, iron is potentially toxic because of its ability to produce hydroxyl radicals in the presence of oxygen, generating harmful oxidative stresses to plants. Iron toxicity is mainly found in acidic or anoxic soils. Such as iron deficiency, iron excess leads to severe growth defects and yield decrease [4]. In order to avoid any iron deficiency or excess that could be detrimental to the metabolism, plants have developed a set of finely tuned molecular mechanisms involved in the acquisition, assimilation and storage of this micronutrient.

Researches conducted in our team aim at:

– Characterizing the molecular mechanisms involved in the control of iron homeostasis in plants (particularly at both transcriptional and post-translational levels).
– Studying the dynamics of coumarin secretion by plant roots in the soil to improve iron nutrition and to precisely depict the function of these molecules in this process.
– Characterizing the machineries leading to iron-sulphur (Fe-S) cluster assembly in chloroplasts and mitochondria, which are crucial for iron assimilation.

 

Team members
Main results

– Our previous work on the study of the plant response to iron excess (using as marker gene the ferritins, which encode proteins involved in the transient storage of iron) lead us to study the transcriptional mechanisms that control iron homeostasis in plants. For instance we have shown that the transcription factor bHLH105 (known as ILR3) play a key role in the control of iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis by acting as an activator of the plant responses to iron deficiency and as a repressor of the plant responses to iron excess. In addition, we have also demonstrated that bHLH121 (also named URI) together with ILR3 and its closet homologues regulate iron homeostasis. In this later study we have shown that bHLH121 acts as a direct transcriptional activator of key genes involved in the Fe regulatory network, including bHLH38, bHLH39, bHLH100, bHLH101, PYE, BTS, BTSL1, MYB10, MYB72 as well as IMA1 and IMA2.
– We have recently characterized a new mechanism involved in plant response to iron deficiency based on coumarin secretion (secondary metabolites derived from the phenylpropanoid pathway). We have shown that the role of coumarins is, in part, to facilitate the solubilisation of the iron present in the medium prior its reduction by the ferric reductase FRO2 and its transport across the rhizodermis by the high affinity iron transporter IRT1. We have also demonstrated that coumarin secretion into the rhizosphere in response to iron deficiency is dependent on the PDR9/ABCG37 transporter activity. More recently, we have shown that the accumulation and transport of these metabolites are complex and dynamic mechanisms.
– We have contributed to the characterization of the protein network involved in the delivery of iron-sulphur (Fe-S) clusters to apo-proteins in plastids. In particular, we have characterized a family of plastid shuttle proteins (NFUs) and showed that the three NFU isoforms share common client proteins but also show specific characteristics. In addition, we have shown that these NFU proteins are involved in the assimilation of sulfate, the constitution of photosystem I and in the biosynthesis of branched chain amino acids.

Significant publications

Berger N, Kalra M, Gao F, Rofidal V, Demolombe V, Santoni V, Dubos C (2025) Impact of iron deficiency on the Arabidopsis thaliana phloem sap proteome, a key role for bHLH121. Physiol. Plantarum, 177(3):e70336

Gao F*, Li M*, Dubos C (2024) bHLH121 and clade IVc bHLH transcription factors synergistically function to regulate iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Exp. Bot., 75(10):2933-2950

Gao F, Dubos C (2024) The arabidopsis bHLH transcription factor family. Trends Plant Sci., 29(6):668-680

Gao F, Dubos C (2023) Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) to study the transcriptional regulatory network that controls iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Methods Mol. Biol., 2665:85-94

Robe K, Conéjéro G, Dubos C (2023) The use of spectral imaging to follow the iron and pH-dependent accumulation of fluorescent coumarins. Methods Mol. Biol., 2665:23-30

Cassan O, Pimparé L-L, Dubos C, Gojon A, Bach L, Lèbre S, Martin A (2023) A gene regulatory network in Arabidopsis roots reveals features and regulators of the plant response to elevated CO2. New Phytol., (accepted)

Li M*, Watanabe S*, Gao F, Dubos C (2023) Iron nutrition in plants: Towards a new paradigm?. Plants-Basel, 12(2):384

Boufeldja L, Brandt D, Guzman C, Vitou M, Boudard F, Morel S, Servent A, Dhuique-Mayer C, Ollier L, Duchamp O, Portet K, Dubos C, Poucheret P (2022) Effect of elevated carbon dioxide exposure on nutrition-health properties of Micro-Tom tomatoes. Molecules, 27(11):3592

Grant-Grant S, Schaffhauser M, Baeza-González PA, Gao F, Conéjéro G, Vidal EA, Gaymard F, Dubos C, Curie C, Roschzttardtz H (2022) B3 transcription factors determine iron distribution and FERRITIN gene expression in embryo but do not control total seed iron content. Front. Plant Sci., 13:870078

Przybyla-Toscano J*, Maclean AE*, Franceschetti M, Liebsch D, Vignols F, Keech O, Rouhier N, Balk J (2022) Protein lipoylation in mitochondria requires Fe-S cluster assembly factors NFU4 and NFU5. Plant Physiol., 188(2):997-1013

Vidal Elgueta A, Navarro N, Uribe M, Robe K, Gaymard F, Dubos C, Pérez MF, Roschzttardtz H (2021) 2000 years of agriculture in the Atacama desert lead to changes in the distribution and concentration of iron in maize. Sci. Rep.-UK, 11:17322

Gao F, Dubos C (2021) Transcriptional integration of the plant responses to iron availability. J. Exp. Bot., 72(6): 2056-2070

Robe K, Izquierdo E, Vignols F, Rouached H, Dubos C (2021) The Coumarins: Secondary metabolites playing a primary role in plant nutrition and health. Trends Plant Sci., 26 (3): 248-259

Robe K, Conéjéro G, Gao F, Lefebvre-Legendre L, Sylvestre-Gonon E, Rofidal V, Hem S, Rouhier N, Barberon M, Hecker A, Gaymard F, Izquierdo E✉, Dubos C✉ (2021) Coumarin accumulation and trafficking in Arabidopsis thaliana: a complex and dynamic process. New Phytol., 229(4):2062-2079

Azam T, Przybyla-Toscano J, Vignols F, Couturier J, Rouhier N, Johnson MK (2020) [4Fe-4S] cluster trafficking mediated by Arabidopsis mitochondrial ISCA and NFU proteins. J. Biol. Chem., 295(52):18367-18378

Azam T*, Przybyla-Toscano J*, Vignols F, Couturier J, Rouhier N, Johnson MK✉ (2020) The Arabidopsis mitochondrial glutaredoxin GRXS15 provides [2Fe-2S] clusters for ISCA-mediated [4Fe-4S] cluster maturation. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 21(23):9237

Berger N, Vignols F, Touraine B, Taupin-Broggini M, Rofidal V, Demolombe V, Santoni V, Rouhier N, Gaymard F, Dubos C✉ (2020) A global proteomic approach sheds new light on potential iron-sulfur client proteins of the chloroplastic maturation factor NFU3. Int. J. Mol. Sci., 21(21):8121

Gao F, Robe K, Dubos C✉ (2020) Further insights into the role of bHLH121 in the regulation of iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Signal. Behav., 15(10):1795582

Robe K*, Gao F*, Bonillo P, Tissot N, Gaymard F, Fourcroy P, Izquierdo E, Dubos C✉ (2020) Sulphur availability modulates Arabidopsis thaliana responses to iron deficiency. PLoS one, 15(8): e0237998

Berger N, Vignols F, Przybyla-Toscano J, Roland M, Rofidal V, Touraine B, Zienkiewicz K, Couturier J, Feussner I, Santoni V, Rouhier N, Gaymard F, Dubos C✉ (2020) Identification of client iron-sulfur proteins of the chloroplastic NFU2 transfer protein in Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Exp. Bot., 71(14):4171-4187

Roschzttardtz H✉, Gaymard F, Dubos C (2020) Transcriptional regulation of iron distribution in seeds: A perspective. Front. Plant Sci., 11:725

Roland M, Przybyla-Toscano J*, Vignols F*, Berger N*, Azam T, Christ L, Santoni V, Wu H-C, Dhalleine T, Johnson MK, Dubos C, Couturier J, Rouhier N✉ (2020) The plastidial Arabidopsis thaliana NFU1 protein binds and delivers [4Fe-4S] clusters to specific client proteins. J. Biol. Chem., 295(6): 1727-1742

Gao F, Robe K, Bettembourg M, Navarro N, Rofidal V, Santoni V, Gaymard F, Vignols F, Roschzttardtz H, Izquierdo E, Dubos C✉ (2019) The transcription factor bHLH121 interacts with bHLH105 (ILR3) and its closest homologs to regulate iron homeostasis in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, (in press)

Rey P, Taupin-Broggini M, Couturier J, Vignols F, Rouhier N (2019) Is there a role for glutaredoxins and BOLAs in the perception of the cellular iron status in plants? Front. Plant Sci. 10:712

Sylvestre-Gonon E, Law S, Schwartz M, Robe K, Keech O, Didierjean C, Dubos C, Rouhier N, Hecker A (2019) Functional, structural and biochemical features of plant serinyl-glutathione transferases. Front. Plant Sci., 10:608

Tissot N, Robe K*, Gao F*, Grant-Grant S, Boucherez J, Bellegarde F, Maghiaoui A, Marcelin R, Izquierdo E, Benhamed M, Martin A, Vignols F, Roschzttardtz H, Gaymard F, Briat J-F, Dubos C (2019) Transcriptional integration of the responses to iron availability in Arabidopsis by the bHLH factor ILR3. New Phytol., (accepted)

Gao F*, Robe K*, Gaymard F, Izquierdo E, Dubos C (2019) The transcriptional control of iron homeostasis in plants: A tale of bHLH transcription factors?. Front. Plant Sci., 10:6

Touraine B, Vignols F*, Przybyla-Toscano J*, Ischebeck T, Dhalleine T, Wu H-C, Magno C, Berger N, Couturier J, Dubos C, Feussner I, Caffarri S, Havaux M, Rouhier N, Gaymard F(2019) Iron–sulfur protein NFU2 is required for branched-chain amino acid synthesis in Arabidopsis roots. J. Exp. Bot., 70(6):1875-1889

Pal S*, Kisko M*, Dubos C, Lacombe B, Berthomieu P, Krouk G, Rouached H (2017) TransDetect identifies a new regulatory module controlling phosphate accumulation. Plant Physiol., 175(2):916-926

Kelemen Z, Przybyla-Toscano J, Tissot N, Lepiniec L, Dubos C (2016) Plant Synthetic Promoters – Fast and efficient cloning of cis-regulatory sequences for high-throughput yeast one-hybrid analyses of transcription factors. Methods Mol. Biol., 1482:139-149

Xiong TC, Sanchez F, Briat J-F, Gaymard F, Dubos C (2016) Plant Synthetic Promoters – Spatio-temporal imaging of promoter activity in intact plant tissues. Methods Mol. Biol., 1482:103-110

Sisó-Terraza P*, Luis-Villarroya A*, Fourcroy P, Briat J-F, Abadía A, Gaymard F, Abadía J, Álvarez-Fernández A (2016) Accumulation and secretion of coumarinolignans and other coumarins in Arabidopsis thaliana roots in response to iron deficiency at high pH. Front. Plant Sci., 7:1711

Fourcroy P*, Tissot N*, Gaymard F, Briat J-F, Dubos C (2016) Facilitated Fe nutrition by phenolic compounds excreted by the Arabidopsis ABCG37/PDR9 transporter requires the IRT1 / FRO2 high affinity root Fe2+ transport system. Mol. Plant, 9(3):485-488

Knuesting J, Riondet C, Maria C, Kruse I, Bécuwe N, König N, Berndt C, Tourrette S, Guilleminot-Montoya J, Herrero E, Gaymard F, Balk J, Belli G, Scheibe R, Reichheld J-P, Rouhier N, Rey P (2015) Arabidopsis glutaredoxin S17 and its partner, the nuclear factor Y subunit C11/negative cofactor 2α, contribute to maintenance of the shoot apical meristem under long-day photoperiod. Plant Physiol., 167(4):1643-1658

Briat J-F, Rouached H, Tissot N, Gaymard F, Dubos C (2015) Integration of P, S, Fe and Zn nutrition signals in Arabidopsis thaliana: potential involvement of PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE 1 (PHR1). Front. Plant Sci., 6:290

Reyt G, Boudouf S, Boucherez J, Gaymard F, Briat J-F (2015) Iron and ferritin dependent ROS distribution impact Arabidopsis root system architecture. Mol. Plant, 8(3):439-453

Briat J-F, Dubos C, Gaymard F (2015) Iron nutrition, biomass production and plant product quality. Trends Plant Sci., 20(1):33-40

Tissot N, Przybyla-Toscano J, Reyt G, Castel B, Duc C, Boucherez J, Gaymard F, Briat J-F, Dubos C (2014) Iron around the clock. Plant Sci., 224:112-119

Fourcroy P, Sisó-Terraza P, Sudre D, Savirón M, Reyt G, Gaymard F, Abadía A, Abadía J, Álvarez-Fernández A, Briat J-F (2014) Involvement of the ABCG37 transporter in secretion of scopoletin and derivatives by Arabidopsis roots in response to iron deficiency. New Phytol., 201(1):155-167

Couturier J*, Wu H-C*, Dhalleine T, Pégeot H, Sudre D, Gualberto J, Jacquot J-P, Gaymard F, Vignols F, Rouhier N (2014) Monothiol glutaredoxin-BolA interactions: redox control of Arabidopsis thaliana BolA2 and SufE1. Mol. Plant, 7(1):187-205

Koen E, Besson-Bard A, Duc C, Astier J, Gravot A, Richaud P, Lamotte O, Boucherez J, Gaymard F, Wendehenne D (2013) Arabidopsis thaliana nicotianamine synthase 4 is required for proper response to iron deficiency and to cadmium exposure. Plant Sci., 209:1-11

Gao H, Subramanian S, Couturier J, Naik SG, Kim S-K, Leustek T, Knaff DB, Wu H-C, Vignols F, Huynh BH, Rouhier N, Johnson MK (2013) Arabidopsis thaliana Nfu2 Accommodates [2Fe-2S] or [4Fe-4S] Clusters and Is Competent for in Vitro Maturation of Chloroplast [2Fe-2S] and [4Fe-4S] Cluster-Containing Proteins. Biochemistry-US, 52(38):6633-6645

Bournier M, Tissot N, Mari S, Boucherez J, Lacombe E, Briat J-F, Gaymard F (2013) Arabidopsis FERRITIN 1 (AtFer1) gene regulation by the PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE 1 (AtPHR1) transcription factor reveals a direct molecular link between iron and phosphate homeostasis. J. Biol. Chem., 288(31):22670-22680

Sudre D*, Gutierrez-Carbonell E*, Lattanzio G, Rellán-Álvarez R, Gaymard F, Wohlgemuth G, Fiehn O, Álvarez-Fernández A, Zamarreño AM, Bacaicoa E, Duy D, García-Mina JM, Abadía J, Philippar K, López-Millán A-F, Briat J-F (2013) Iron-dependent modifications of the flower transcriptome, proteome, metabolome and hormonal content in an Arabidopsis ferritin mutant. J. Exp. Bot., 64(10):2665-2688

Couturier J, Touraine B, Briat J-F, Gaymard F, Rouhier N (2013) The iron-sulfur cluster assembly machineries in plants: current knowledge and open questions. Front. Plant Sci., 4:259

Collaborations
KROUK Gabriel, INRAE Montpellier, IPSiM
MARTIN Antoine, INRAE Montpellier, IPSiM
NACRY Philippe, INRAE Montpellier, IPSIM

BENHAMED Moussa, University Paris-Sud, IPS2
BESTEIRO Sébastien, INSERM Montpellier, LPHI
COUTURIER Jérémy, University of Lorraine, IAM
CORSO Massimiliano, INRAE Versailles, IJPB
DEMENE Hélène, CNRS Montpellier, CBS
HINOUX Valérie, University of Perpignan, LGDP
LATRASSE David, University Paris-Sud, IPS2
LEPINIEC Loïc, INRAE Versailles, IJPB
PRIGENT-COMBARET Claire, Lyon, LEM
PRZYBYLA-TOSCANO Jonathan, INRAE Grenoble, LPCV
REICHHELD Jean-Philippe, CNRS Perpignan, LGDP
ROUHIER Nicolas, University of Lorraine, IAM

GAO Fei, Hunan Agricultural University, China
MARINO Daniel, Université of Basques country , Spain
PIETERSE Corné, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
ROSCHZTTARDTZ Hannetz, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile
SEO Mitsunori, Ryukyus University, Japan
STRINGLIS Ionnis, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece
WATANABE Shunsuke, Yasuda Women’s University, Japan
WU Hui-Chen, National University of Tainan, Taiwan

Funding
– ANR, DYNAFER Project (2023-2026)
– ANR, HCF4LIFE Project (2023-2026)
– Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, PLANTSEEFE Project (2021-2023)
– BioCampus, PEPIRON Project (2021)
– Labex Agro, CALCLIM Project (2020-2022)
– i-SITE MUSE, eCO2THREATS Project (2019-2021)
– INRA département BAP, BolAFER Project (2019-2020)
– ANR, MOBIFER Project (2018-2022)
– Labex Agro, FACCE Project (2017-2018)
– INRA département BAP, MULTICSTRESS Project (2017-2018)
– Institut Carnot Plant2Pro, POSITIF Project (2018-2020)
– INRA département BAP, HARSH Project (2014-2015)
– ANR, FeS-TRAFFIC Project (2014-2017)
Former team members
Permanent staff
Jossia BOUCHEREZ (TR, INRAE)
Jean-François BRIAT (DR, CNRS)
Françoise CELLIER (CR, INRAE)
Pierre FOURCROY (CR, CNRS)
Frédéric GAYMARD (DR, INRAE)
Françoise GOSTI (CR, CNRS)
Esther IZQUIERDO-ALEGRE (CR, INRAE)
Frédéric SANCHEZ (TR, INRAE)
Brigitte TOURAINE (IE, INRAE)
Tou Cheu XIONG (CR, INRAE)

Students
Lilou HERENT (2024), L3 Montpellier
Maéva HOULE (2024), L3 Montpellier
Lilou HERENT (2024), L2 Montpellier
Chérhazad BOUSTANI (2023), M2 (Montpellier)
Domitille TUR (2022), L3 (Montpellier)
Julie BALS (2022), M1 (Montpellier)
Linda BOUFELDjA (2018-2022), PhD (Montpellier)
Fei GAO (2017-2021), Doctorant (Montpellier)
Julie BALS (2021), L3 Pro (Toulouse)
Chérhazad BOUSTANI (2021), L3 (Montpellier)
Pauline FOUBERT (2021), L3 Pro (Toulouse)
Kevin ROBE (2018-2021), PhD (Montpellier)
Max STASSEN (2021), M2 ERASMUS (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Maël TAUPIN-BROGGINI (2018-2021), PhD (Montpellier)
Victorine NOËL (2020), L3 (Montpellier)
Mélia PETIT-BECMONT (2020), L3 (Montpellier)
Dennis BRANDT (2019), ERASMUS (Münster, Germany)
Julie GUERREIRO (2019), L3 (Montpellier)
Thomas FERRAN (2018), BTS (Montpellier)
Mélusine SENANAYAKE (2018), L3 (Montpellier)
Maël TAUPIN-BROGGINI (2018), M2 (Montpellier)
Chafika ABDOU ISSA (2017), M1 (Nantes)
Pauline DUVAL (2017), L3 (Montpellier)
Vincent OGLIENGO (2017), L3 (Montpellier)
Guillaume PERBECH (2017), L3 (Montpellier)
Kevin ROBE (2017), M2 / VetAgro (Clermont-Ferrand)
Pauline BONILLO (2016), M1 (Montpellier)
Jennifer BORN (2016), L3 ERASMUS (Göttingen, Germany)
Nicolas DURA (2016), BTS (Montpellier)
Thi Hong Ha NGUYEN (2016), L3 (Hanoï, Viêt Nam)
Nicolas TISSOT (2013-2016), PhD (Montpellier)
Amel MAGHIAOUI (2015), L3 Pro (Toulouse)
Laura MARTINS (2015), M2 (Montpellier)
Caroline SCIALLANO (2015), L3 (Lyon)
Soukaina BOUDOUF (2014), M1 (Montpellier)
Romain MARCELIN (2014), L3 (Montpellier)
Baptiste CASTEL (2013), M1 (Montpellier)
Cyril MAGNO (2013), M2 (Montpellier)
Benoit MERMAZ (2013), L3 (Montpellier)
Jonathan PRZYBYLA-TOSCANO (2013), M2 (Montpellier)

Contractual staff
Shunsuke WATANABE (2021-2024), Postdoc
Fabien DUBOIS (2021-2023), BIATTS UM
Mathilde BETTEMBOURG (2017-2018), ATER UM
Karl RAVET (2014), Postdoc
Cyril MAGNO (2013-2015), CDD IE

Visiting scientists
Swarnali DEY (2023), PhD Student (University of Calcutta, India)
Agustin Javier MARIN (2022), PhD Student (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
Max STASSEN (2022), PhD Student (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Susana GRANT GRANT (2019), PhD student (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile)
Hannetz ROSCHZTTARDTZ (2018-2019), Assistant Professeur (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile)
Tamara MENDEZ CASTRO (2018), PhD student (University of Talca, Chile)
Jonathan PRZYBYLA-TOSCANO (2017), ATER (University of Lorraine, France)
Mélanie ROLAND (2017), PhD student (University of Lorraine, France)
Nicolas ROUHIER (2017-2018), Professeur (University of Lorraine, France
Hui-Chen WU (2016-2017), Assistant Professeur (University of Tainan, Taïwan)
Patricia SISÓ-TERRAZA (2013), Doctorante (CSIC, Saragosse, Spain)

4th edition of the INUPRAG Symposium, 14 – 16 october 2025 / Campus Institut Agro – INRAE

Scientific Committee
• Christian DUBOS
• Antoine MARTIN
• Yann BOURSIAC

IBIP seminar: Che Jing

Thusday july 17 – Node-localized transporters regulate iron and zinc distribution for rice grain biofortification

IBIP seminar: Kévin Robe

march 13, 2025 – Unravelling the spatiotemporal component of carrier-mediated nutrient transport in roots

Mistral Summer school on “Ion and water transport in plants”

July 1-12, 2024 – Montpellier
Organisers: Anne-Aliénor Véry, Martin Boeglin, Claire Corratgé-Faillie, Perrine Rudinger & Chantal Baracco

IBIP seminar: Santosh B. Satbhai

Thursday, September 28 2023 – HY5: A Pivotal Regulator of Iron Deficiency Signaling in Plants

Kévin Robe received the AAF-SFBV thesis prize 2022

for his work on the localization, dynamics and roles of coumarins in iron nutrition in Arabidopsis thaliana performed at IPSIM, Montpellier in the FeRos team

IBIP seminar: Daniel Marino

May 19, 2022 – Ammonium nutrition meets iron homeostasis

13th International Conference of the French Society of Plant Biology

August 29-31 2022, Montpellier France. organizer: Christian Dubos (IPSiM FeRos team)

Thesis defended by Maël Taupin-Broggini

December 10, 2021 – Functional characterization of Arabidopsis BolA proteins in iron-sulfur center transfer and iron homeostasis

Thesis defended by Fei Gao

June 22, 2021 – Study of the molecular mechanisms controlling iron homeostasis in plants

Thesis defended by Kevin Robe

January 28, 2021 – Location, dynamics and role of coumarins in iron nutrition in Arabidopsis thaliana

Coumarin accumulation and trafficking in Arabidopsis thaliana: a complex and dynamic process

A new publication from Kevin’s PhD thesis (Robe et al., 2021 – New Phytol, doi: 10.1111/nph.17090)

The plastidial Arabidopsis thaliana NFU1 protein binds and delivers [4Fe-4S] clusters to specific client proteins

Some news on the iron–sulfur biogenesis and the role of NFU1 in this process. A manuscript in collaboration with Nicolas Rouhier’s team and issued from Mélanie’s PhD thesis (Roland et al., 2020 – J Biol Chem, doi: 10.1074/jbc.RA119.011034). An article which was selected by the JBC editorial team to celebrates a few of the new insights, advances and tools that moved scientific research forward in 2020

The Coumarins: Secondary Metabolites Playing a Primary Role in Plant Nutrition and Health

Interested in coumarins or plant nutrition and health? Here is a recent review on the role of coumarins in plant nutrition and health prepared by Kevin (Robe et al., 2021 – Trends Plant Sci, doi: 10.1016/j.tplants.2020.10.008)

Is There a Role for Glutaredoxins and BOLAs in the Perception of the Cellular Iron Status in Plants?

A recent review of the role of glutharedoxins and BOLA in the perception of iron status in plants (Rey et al., 2019 – Front Plant Sci, doi: 10.3389/fpls.2019.00712)