Metal tolerance and hyperaccumulation: costs and trade-offs between traits and environment

E Maestri, M Marmiroli, G Visioli, N Marmiroli - … and Experimental Botany, 2010 - Elsevier
Metal hyperaccumulation is a trait present in over 450 higher plant species.
Hyperaccumulators are also tolerant to metals, but hyperaccumulation and tolerance are …

[HTML][HTML] Ultramafic geoecosystems as a natural source of Ni, Cr, and Co to the environment: A review

J Kierczak, A Pietranik, A Pędziwiatr - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Ultramafic soils are in equal parts fascinating and dangerous. Developed on rocks derived
predominately from the Earth's mantle and metamorphosed at the ocean floors, ultramafic …

Transgenerational memory of gene expression changes induced by heavy metal stress in rice (Oryza sativa L.)

W Cong, Y Miao, L Xu, Y Zhang, C Yuan, J Wang… - BMC plant biology, 2019 - Springer
Background Heavy metal toxicity has become a major threat to sustainable crop production
worldwide. Thus, considerable interest has been placed on deciphering the mechanisms …

Lessons on evolution from the study of edaphic specialization

N Rajakaruna - The Botanical Review, 2018 - Springer
Plants adapted to special soil types are ideal for investigating evolutionary processes,
including maintenance of intraspecific variation, adaptation, reproductive isolation, ecotypic …

[PDF][PDF] Nickel hyperaccumulation by the species of Alyssum and Thlaspi (Brassicaceae) from the ultramafic soils of the Balkans

A Bani, D Pavlova, G Echevarria, A Mullaj… - Botanica …, 2010 - academia.edu
Hyperaccumulation of nickel to concentrations above 1000 mg kg-1 on a dry matter basis
has become recognized as an unusual response by some plant species to the elevated …

Ultramafic geoecology of south and Southeast Asia

ML Galey, A van Der Ent, MCM Iqbal, N Rajakaruna - Botanical Studies, 2017 - Springer
Globally, ultramafic outcrops are renowned for hosting floras with high levels of endemism,
including plants with specialised adaptations such as nickel or manganese …

How did the ultramafic soils shape the flora of the New Caledonian hotspot?

S Isnard, L L'huillier, F Rigault, T Jaffré - Plant and Soil, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background New Caledonia is renowned as one of the world's most significant
biodiversity hotpots. The nutrient-deficiency and cations imbalances of ultramafic soils …

Is a mixture of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi better for plant growth than single-species inoculants?

T Crossay, C Majorel, D Redecker, S Gensous… - Mycorrhiza, 2019 - Springer
Inoculation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) as plant growth promoters has mostly
been conducted using single-species inoculum. In this study, we investigated whether co …

Nutritional strategy underlying plant specialization to gypsum soils

A Cera, G Montserrat-Martí, S Palacio - AoB Plants, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gypsum soils are amongst the most widespread extreme substrates of the world, occurring
in 112 countries. This type of hypercalcic substrate has a suite of extreme physical and …

Divergent biology of facultative heavy metal plants

H Bothe, A Słomka - Journal of Plant Physiology, 2017 - Elsevier
Among heavy metal plants (the metallophytes), facultative species can live both in soils
contaminated by an excess of heavy metals and in non-affected sites. In contrast, obligate …