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SUMMARY:Bridging the gap between isotope geochemistry and plant sciences -
  Dr Rebekah Moore\, Imperial College London
DTSTART:20251111T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will describe the principles behind and metho
 dologies necessary for investigation of metal uptake\, sequestration and t
 ransport by terrestrial plants using non-traditional stable isotope analys
 es. Designed to be informative and useful to both geochemists and plant sc
 ientists\, the presentation will cover what natural stable isotope analyse
 s of different metals have already taught us about biological and physicoc
 hemical processes in plant-soil/solution systems. After highlighting best 
 practices for data acquisition and interpretation\, the talk will conclude
  with an overview of my current research\, which investigates a biological
  process not yet considered in natural stable isotope experiments: symbiot
 ic plant-fungi associations. The results of my pilot experiment on arbuscu
 lar mycorrhizal rice\, conducted in collaboration with plant scientists at
  Cambridge\, set the foundation for a new area of multidisciplinary resear
 ch with enormous potential to inform and influence environmental and agric
 ultural strategies and policies\, e.g. related to depleted or contaminated
  land\, plant and human nutrition\, and food security.
LOCATION:Department of Earth Sciences\, Tilley Lecture Theatre
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