Metal hyperaccumulation is a trait present in over 450 higher plant species.
Hyperaccumulators are also tolerant to metals, but hyperaccumulation and tolerance are …

Metal hyperaccumulator plants accumulate and detoxify extraordinarily high concentrations
of metal ions in their shoots. Metal hyperaccumulation is a fascinating phenomenon, which …

During the history of life on Earth, tectonic and climatic change repeatedly generated large
territories that were virtually devoid of life and exhibited harsh environmental conditions. The …

The term “hyperaccumulator” describes a number of plants that belong to distantly related
families, but share the ability to grow on metalliferous soils and to accumulate extraordinarily …

Trace metal elements are essential for plant growth but become toxic at high concentrations,
while some non-essential elements, such as Cd and As, show toxicity even in traces. Thus …

To succeed in life, living organisms have to adapt to the environmental issues to which they
are subjected. Some plants, defined as hyperaccumulators, have adapted to metalliferous …

Heavy metal pollution has become a public concern (Mohammed et al., 2011), and the
development of efficient phytoremediation (ie using plants to clean polluted environment) …

In the course of evolution, plants adapted to widely differing metal availabilities in soils and
therefore represent an important source of natural variation of metal homeostasis networks …

Hyperaccumulation of heavy metal ions is a striking phenomenon exhibited by< 0.2% of
angiosperms. These hyperaccumulator plants are considered endemic to metalliferous …

On sols highly polluted by trace metallic elements the majority of plant species are
excluders, limiting the entry and the root to shoot translocation of trace metals. However a …