Plant that can tolerate high levels of heavy metals
A metallophyte is a plant that can tolerate high levels of heavy metals such as lead. Such plants range between "obligate metallophytes" (which can only survive in the presence of these metals), and "facultative metallophytes" which can tolerate such conditions but are not confined to them.[1]
European examples include alpine pennycress (Thlaspi caerulescens), the zinc violet (Viola calaminaria), spring sandwort (Minuartia verna), sea thrift (Armeria maritima), Cochlearia, common bent (Agrostis capillaris) and plantain (Plantago lanceolata).[2] Few metallophytes are known from Latin America.[3]
Metallophytes commonly exist as specialised flora found on spoil heaps of mines.
Such plants have potential for use for phytoremediation of contaminated ground.
^CRC dictionary of agricultural sciences, Robert Alan Lewis, CRC Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8493-2327-4
^Ecosystems of Disturbed Ground, Lawrence R Walker, Elsevier, 1999, ISBN 0-444-82420-0
^Ginocchio, Rosanna; Baker, Alan J.M. (2004), "Metallophytes in Latin America: a remarkable biological and genetic resource scarcely known and studied in the region", Revista chilena de historia natural, 77 (1): 185–194, doi:10.4067/S0716-078X2004000100014
A metallophyte is a plant that can tolerate high levels of heavy metals such as lead. Such plants range between "obligate metallophytes" (which can only...
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particular those in the genera: Ceratostigma Plumbago It can also refer to metallophyte plants capable of tolerating high levels of lead, such as spring sandwort...
Specialised communities of plants occur on former lead workings, where typical metallophyte species include spring sandwort (Minuartia verna), alpine penny-cress...
edible and no subspecies have been found. It has been found to be a metallophyte and probably has copper as an essential macro-nutrient. World Ferns:...
form another distinctive White Peak habitat, supporting a range of rare metallophyte plants, including spring sandwort (Minuartia verna; also known as leadwort)...
conceivable way of recovering the material. Hyperaccumulating plants are often metallophyte. Induced or assisted phytoextraction is a process where a conditioning...
Ceredigion, west Wales. The two special features are metal tolerant (Metallophyte) Lichens and mineral veins exposed in mines and tunnels. List of Sites...
"Genetic diversity in populations of Erica andevalensis, a vulnerable metallophyte species from the Iberian Peninsula". Web Ecology. 8: 135–141. v t e...
Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is an absolute metallophyte, restricted to steppic savanna in copper outcrops. Surface mining is...
Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is an absolute metallophyte, living on rocky steppes with copper-rich soils. It is threatened by...
vacuole membrane. An example of plants that adapt to serpentine soil are Metallophytes, or hyperaccumulators, as they are known for their ability to absorbed...
Roger D.; Malaisse, François (1979). "Copper and cobalt uptake by metallophytes from Zaïre" (PDF). Plant and Soil. 53 (4). Kluwer: 535–539. doi:10.1007/bf02140724...
Retrieved 24 November 2023. "Dix ans de support à la conservation des métallophytes en RDC". www.gembloux.uliege.be (in French). February 2018. Retrieved...
e., metallophyte species. Metallophytes are plants that can tolerate high levels of heavy metals in the soils such as copper. These metallophyte species...
The waste from these mines supports open grassland within which the metallophyte spring sandwort, Minuartia verna, has established itself. "Slit Woods :...
in Albania: Taxonomy and Nickel accumulation in a critical group of metallophytes from a major serpentine hot-spot" (PDF). Phytotaxa. 351 (1): 1. doi:10...
Interest (SSSI). This very specialised group of plants are known as metallophytes, being found only around old metal workings. They are able to extract...
Eyebright, Wild thyme and the Common spotted orchid. Some plants called metallophytes can tolerate the high levels of metal in the soil: these include Spring...
and Manalog. The mountain hosts endemic species of pitcher plants, metallophytes, and other wildlife. The majority of the population are Higaunen (Higaonon);...
heavy metal tolerances in hyperaccumulator and non-hyperaccumulator metallophytes". Journal of Experimental Botany. 53 (379): 2381–2392. doi:10.1093/jxb/erf107...
305139; -2.024583 The site is noted for its Spring Sandwort population (Metallophytes) which are in abundance on former lead workings, especially at Ballowfield...
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