Meagher Laboratory

 

Transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants expressing the merA gene are highly resistant to ionic mercury
 

 

MerA expressing

transgenic Arabidopsis

Wild type controls

Transgenic Arabidopsis with the bacterial merA gene under control of plant regulatory sequences express MerA protein (mercuric ion reductase). Seeds from these plants germinate and plants grown on mercury concentrations that kill normal wild type control seeds and plants.