Long‐term cadmium exposure influences the abundance of proteins that impact the cell wall structure in Medicago sativa stems

This study is funded as part of the bilateral project CadWALL (FNR/FWO project INTER/FWO/12/14). JFH, JR, AC, KS and AG conceived the study and designed the experiments. AG prepared the samples and performed most of the experiments and data analyses. JR, GG, KS and EK contributed to analysis of the data. AG and KS drafted the manuscript, which was critically revised and approved by all co-authors. We especially thank Sebastien Planchon and Laurent Solinhac for technical assistance, Johanna Ziebel for performing all ICP-MS analyses and Bruno Printz for support. We thank the group of Ann Cuypers at the University of Hasselt for great support and assistance in performing the gene expression analysis.