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As a widespread, permanent stress factor in acid soils, Aluminum toxicity has driven the evolution of different mechanisms that allow plants to colonize these adverse environments. Even more, Al-induced stimulation of growth has frequently been observed in highly adapted plants. Plant strategies for handling excess Al span from highly efficient exclusion (hyper-resistance) to the tolerance of extremely high Al accumulation within leaf tissues (hyper-tolerance). This chapter, after considering potential mechanisms for Al-induced growth stimulation, gives an overview of the current knowledge on Al hyper-resistance and Al hyper-tolerance mechanisms in plants with special focus on both the highly efficient excluder species of the genus Urochloa (former Brachiaria) and the most studied Al accumulators, tea and buckwheat.
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Authors’ cited work was supported by the Spanish MICINN (projects BFU2010-14873 and BFU2013-42839-R).
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Poschenrieder, C., Tolrà, R., Hajiboland, R., Arroyave, C., Barceló, J. (2015). Mechanisms of Hyper-resistance and Hyper-tolerance to Aluminum in Plants. In: Panda, S., Baluška, F. (eds) Aluminum Stress Adaptation in Plants. Signaling and Communication in Plants, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19968-9_5
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