European Co-Operation
in the field of Scientific and Technical research
Phytotechnologies
to promote
sustainable land use and improve food safety
ENSM-SE
Saint-Etienne
08-31-2006 / 09-02-2006
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Why
this workshop at the ENSM-SE
Geochemists of the SPIN-Generic Department are members — with the
LEPA laboratory of the
The attempt of this research is to use plants as markers of the impact of
heavy-metals in soils, and possibly to use thems to protect human beings from contamination.
The plant metabolism can be exploited to explore various ways of environmental protection:
Bio stabilization of polluted areas – the aim is to obtain a
sufficiently dense vegetal cover over a contaminated area to prevent pollutant
transfer by erosion processes or/and leaching of pollutant toward groundwater;
indigenous plants are studied to improve colonization of non accumulator
species adapted to stressful conditions;
Bio extraction of metals in soils – the aim is to recognize
and favour growing of accumulator species, to increase the transfer of pollutant toward the plants, thus detoxifying
soils and possibly valorising the extracted metals.
Lixiviation of metals in soils – the aim is to select, among
the non accumulator species, plants favouring leaching of heavy metals in
groundwater; water is recovered and treated later on.
This research is supported by the “Région Rhône-Alpes” (programme AVENIR), “ADEME” (programme
BioIndicateurs), the “Ministère de l’Ecologie et du
Développement Durable”
(PNETOX programme) and by
“Saint-Etienne Métropole”.
Most communications will focus on the mechanisms of pollutant transfer (heavy metals and
organics) from soil to plant. Probably, the title of the workshop is quite obscure
for most people at ENSM-SE. It may be translated in French as “Les
apports de la biologie molculaire et de la biochimie dans le management de
agricole: de nouvelles orientations visant à améliorer la qualité et la
sécurité alimentaire”.
Your
participation to the workshop
We need some students: please join the local organizing committee to help
us during these three days,
contact bouchardon@emse.fr
As a member of ENSM-SE, your registration is free.
However, you must be registered to participate to the workshop, and
then:
your presence at the working sessions will be
restricted only by the number of available seats in the amphitheatre;
If you want to have lunch with the working group, your
contribution*(1) is fixed to 10€/lunch, amount ordinary
included in the fees;
If you want to take part to the Gala Dinner with the
working group, your contribution will be of 40€ as any member of the
working group;
your participation to the field trip will be
restricted only by the number of available seats in the bus; your
contribution*(1) is fixed to 10€ for lunch
*(1) except students of
the local organizing committee
