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Odontarrhena lesbiaca (Candargy) Rešetnik

Brassicaceae Herb

Synonym: Alyssum lesbiacum

Accumulation profile

Ni Nickel Obligate
20,000 µg g⁻¹ DW
20× the nickel threshold
Other nickel accumulators →
Substrate
Ultramafic (serpentine)
Habitat
Serpentine slopes
Distribution
Greece (Lesbos), Anatolia
First reported
1994 · Krämer et al.
Verification
review-cited

Description & ecology

A key laboratory model in which histidine was shown to bind and mobilise nickel, a landmark result in the biochemistry of hyperaccumulation.

References

  1. Krämer, U. (2010). Metal hyperaccumulation in plants. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 61, 517–534. doi:10.1146/annurev-arplant-042809-112156
  2. Reeves, R. D., Baker, A. J. M., Jaffré, T., Erskine, P. D., Echevarria, G., & van der Ent, A. (2018). A global database for plants that hyperaccumulate metal and metalloid trace elements. New Phytologist, 218, 407–411. doi:10.1111/nph.14907

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