Molecular membrane separation: plants inspire new technologies

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dc.contributor.authorDe Rosa, A.
dc.contributor.authorMcGaughey, S.
dc.contributor.authorMagrath, I.
dc.contributor.authorByrt, C.
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractPlants draw up their surrounding soil solution to gain water and nutrients required for growth, development and reproduction. Obtaining adequate water and nutrients involves taking up both desired and undesired elements from the soil solution and separating resources from waste. Desirable and undesirable elements in the soil solution can share similar chemical properties, such as size and charge. Plants use membrane separation mechanisms to distinguish between different molecules that have similar chemical properties. Membrane separation enables distribution or retention of resources and efflux or compartmentation of waste. Plants use specialised membrane separation mechanisms to adapt to challenging soil solution compositions and distinguish between resources and waste. Coordination and regulation of these mechanisms between different tissues, cell types and subcellular membranes supports plant nutrition, environmental stress tolerance and energy management. This review considers membrane separation mechanisms in plants that contribute to specialised separation processes and highlights mechanisms of interest for engineering plants with enhanced performance in challenging conditions and for inspiring the development of novel industrial membrane separation technologies. Knowledge gained from studying plant membrane separation mechanisms can be applied to developing precision separation technologies. Separation technologies are needed for harvesting resources from industrial wastes and transitioning to a circular green economy.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityAnnamaria De Rosa, Samantha McGaughey, Isobel Magrath and Caitlin Byrt
dc.identifier.citationNew Phytologist, 2023; 238(1):33-54
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/nph.18762
dc.identifier.issn0028-646X
dc.identifier.issn1469-8137
dc.identifier.orcidByrt, C. [0000-0001-8549-2873]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/137677
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT180100476
dc.rights© 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18762
dc.subjectbioengineering; efficiency; nutrition; transport; wastewater
dc.subject.meshPlants
dc.subject.meshSoil
dc.titleMolecular membrane separation: plants inspire new technologies
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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