Abstract (may include machine translation)
To determine if the Ni-hyperaccumulator Alyssum corsicum can absorb Ni from the kinetically inert crystalline mineral NiO(s) (bunsenite). A. corsicum and A. montanum plants were grown for 30 days in a serpentine Hoagland solution. NiO was provided at 0 or 0.1 g L-1 (1.34 mmol L-1) as reagent grade NiO particles <1 μm diameter, continuously mixed by aeration. A. corsicum and A. montanum shoots contained 19.4 and 5.2 mg Ni kg-1 DW with NiO, and 3.0 and 1.1 mg Ni kg-1 DW shoots, respectively in the control treatment. A. corsicum normally absorbs over 12,000 mg Ni kg -1 shoots when supplied 300 μM soluble Ni. Roots were coated with the NiO particles and contained 3-5% Ni at harvest. Despite the small Ni accumulation in the NiO treatment above control, A. corsicum is not capable of dissolving and hyperaccumulating Ni from NiO.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 219-223 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Plant and Soil |
Volume | 319 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2009 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Hyperaccumulator
- Kinetic
- Nickel
- Phytoextraction
- Serpentine