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A comparison of lead accumulation and tolerance among heavy metal hyperaccumulating and non-hyperaccumulating metallophytes

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Abstract

Aims

The aim of the present study was to compare lead accumulation and tolerance among heavy metal hyperaccumulating and non-hyperaccumulating metallophytes.

Methods

To this purpose, we compared Pb tolerance and accumulation in hydroponics among calamine and non-calamine populations of Silene vulgaris, Noccaea caerulescens, and Matthiola flavida. We established the effects of Ca on Pb tolerance and accumulation in M. flavida, and measured exchangeable soil Pb and Ca at two calamine sites.

Results

Results revealed that calamine populations of S. vulgaris and N. caerulescens were Pb hypertolerant, but the calamine M. flavida population was not. Pb hyperaccumulation capacity was exclusively found in one of the calamine N. caerulescens populations.

Conclusions

1) Pb hypertolerance is sometimes lacking in metallophyte populations from strongly Pb-enriched soil, probably due to a relatively high level of exchangeable soil Ca, 2) Ca effectively counteracts Pb uptake and Pb toxicity, 3) The tendency to hyperaccumulate Pb is a population-specific phenomenon in N. caerulescens, 4) Pb hypertolerance in N. caerulescens is not necessarily associated with a tendency to hyperaccumulate Pb, 5) apparent natural Pb hyperaccumulation in M. flavida is not reproducible in hydroponics, probably due to the absence of air-born contamination in laboratory experiments.

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We gratefully acknowledge a scholarship to A. Mohtadi from the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran (MSRT) and Graduate School of the University of Isfahan.

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, 81746-73441, Iran

    Ahmad Mohtadi & Seyed Majid Ghaderian

  2. Department of Genetics, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Ahmad Mohtadi & Henk Schat

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Mohtadi, A., Ghaderian, S.M. & Schat, H. A comparison of lead accumulation and tolerance among heavy metal hyperaccumulating and non-hyperaccumulating metallophytes. Plant Soil 352, 267–276 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-011-0994-5

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