Metal homeostasis, detoxification, and bioavailability

The Sankaran lab uses a multidisciplinary approach to develop strategies to enhance nutritional quality of plant foods while trying to mitigate accumulation of toxic metals such as cadmium and arsenic in important staple crops such as wheat and rice.  Our research incorporates different physiological, molecular and biochemical tools in trying to gain understanding of the different molecular signals regulating the partitioning of both the essential and non-essential ions to edible tissues.