ACCUMULATORS AND EXCLUDERS - STRATEGIES IN THE RESPONSE OF PLANTS TO HEAVY-METALS
ACCUMULATORS AND EXCLUDERS - STRATEGIES IN THE RESPONSE OF PLANTS TO HEAVY-METALS
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DOI:
10.1080/01904168109362867
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
BAKER, AJM
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作者:
BAKER, AJM
Plants colonizing metalliferous soils have evolved physiological mechanisms which enable them to tolerate metal toxicity. These mechanisms do not generally suppress metal uptake but result in internal detoxification. Two basic strategies of plant response are suggested, accumulators and excluders. In the former, metals can be concentrated in plant parts from low or high background levels. By contrast, differential uptake and transport between root and shoot in excluders, lead to more or less constant low shoot levels over a wide range of external concentration. ‘Indicators’ are seen as a further mode of response where proportional relationships exist between metal levels in the soil, uptake and accumulation in plant parts. The physiological properties of accumulator and excluder species are considered in relation to metal tolerance mechanisms.