“…Sedum alfredii (Crassulaceae) is a Cd/Zn cohyperaccumulator and Pb accumulator first discovered in regions of Zhejiang province, China, where Pb and Zn are heavily mined (Tian et al, 2010(Tian et al, , 2011aLu et al, 2013). Due to its high Cd/Zn/Pb tolerance and accumulation and its relatively high biomass, this plant species has been used for phytoremediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals throughout China (Wang et al, 2013;Xiao et al, 2013;Lu and Zhang, 2014;Yang et al, 2014). S. alfredii is one of only a few nonbrassica species known to date to have both Cd and Zn hyperaccumulation properties (KrĂ€mer, 2010;Cappa and Pilon-Smits, 2014;Pollard et al, 2014), as the two most widely studied hyperaccumulator species-N. caerulescens and A. halleri-are both members of the Brassicaceae family (Verbruggen et al, 2013).…”