Welcome to the Purdue Ionomics Information Management System, home of the Arabidopsis Ionomics project.


Click on the magnifying glass to navigate the >1500 T-DNA lines and >100,000 shoot samples already analyzed.

Our paper using natural variation in Arabidopsis to identify a putative Molybdenum transporter has just been published in PLOS Genetics!

Piims is described in our paper in Plant Physiology.

We have several exciting ongoing projects:

Reverse genetics: We are in the middle of running 1600 T-DNA lines, including your Favorite lines! If you are interested in sending us your homozygous seed for analysis, please create yourself an account on the system (click on "sign up" in the upper right hand corner), then follow the instructions on the order form to send us the seed.
Forward genetics: We have completed a screen of the Lehle Fast Neutron population (see Lahner et al. 2003) under our standard soil growth conditions. We have completed screens of the Lehle EMS population under Fe and P limitation and are working on a Zn limitation screen.
Natural Variation: We have analyzed >90 natural accessions and 3 RIL populations (Cvi-Ler, Col-Ler, Van-Col). For examples of how fruitful this approach is, see our Mo paper above or our paper describing a new allele of HKT1 found in coastal accessions of Arabidopsis in PLOS Genetics.
Click here for a PDF tutorial on submitting seed and searching the database.
Click here for a schematic representation of our Pipeline.

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1645 total experiments
137993 total samples
10706 unique lines
2080 unique genes
2211 orders submitted
2020 orders completed

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"All the ions in a cell play critical roles. Ions energize biological membranes, they play a key role in enzyme activity, they regulate the transmission of signals in the cell and the transport of materials throughout the cell. We want to understand how the cell, in turn, regulates those ions."


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Purdue research plots new field in plant genomics
Genomic scale profiling of nutrient and trace elements in Arabidopsis thaliana
Update on plant ionomics
Disease-Fighting Foods May Be Derived From Metal-Loving Plants