Nickel Hyperaccumulation in the Serpentine Flora of Cuba

Reeves, Roger D.; Baker, A. J. M.; Borhidi, A.; Berazaín, Rosalina

doi:10.1006/anbo.1998.0786

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“…Following initial observations by Berazaín (1981), a survey of much of the Caribbean ultramafic flora revealed 128 such species in Cuba, as well as Phyllanthus nummularioides from the Dominican Republic (Reeves et al 1996(Reeves et al , 1999. Psychotria grandis is a Ni hyperaccumulator where it occurs on ultramafic soils in Puerto Rico (Reeves 2003;Campbell et al 2013;McAlister et al 2015).…”

Section: Nickelmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…ultramafics, Cu-Co mineralization, calamine deposits) can be regarded as primary habitats for most hyperaccumulator plants. In certain cases, as in some of the ultramafic terraines of Cuba and New Caledonia, such soils are believed to have been continuously available for plant life and evolution for millions of years (Reeves et al 1996(Reeves et al , 1999. Other naturally occurring metalliferous soils are much younger, having been subjected to more recent geological processes such as erosion and re-deposition, hydrothermal alteration, or glaciation.…”

Section: Status Of Hyperaccumulator Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Often the most ancient and undisturbed metalliferous environments support the richest assemblages of hyperaccumulator plants (e.g. Reeves et al 1996Reeves et al , 1999.…”

Section: Status Of Hyperaccumulator Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Developments can be followed through earlier summaries, some of which deal with hyperaccumulators of other elements (Brooks 1987(Brooks , 1998Baker and Brooks 1989;Reeves et al 1996Reeves et al , 1999Reeves and Baker 2000;Reeves 2003Reeves , 2005; more recent results can be found in reports on work in Brazil by Reeves et al (2007), and in Turkey by Ad{güzel (2004, 2008). Ongoing investigations in Sabah (Malaysia) and New Caledonia continue to reveal numerous hyperaccumulator plants new to science (van der Ent et al unpublished data).…”

Section: Nickelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hyperaccumulators in the Asteraceae occur in South Africa (Berkheya and Senecio; Morrey et al 1989Morrey et al , 1992, in the Mediterranean-Turkey region (Centaurea; Reeves and Ad{güzel 2004), and in the neotropics (e.g. Pentacalia and Senecio in Cuba, Reeves et al 1999; and in species in several genera from Brazil, Reeves et al 2007). The Ni hyperaccumulator plants reported to date belong to about 40 different families, distributed widely throughout the plant kingdom; this property is therefore presumed to have evolved independently many times.…”

Section: Nickelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A large body of analytical data is available on the inorganic composition of many thousands of plant species, for which typical concentration ranges have been tabulated for major, minor, and trace elements. These elements include those that have been shown essential for plant growth, as well as others that lack this status, at least universally. Metalliferous soils, having abnormally high concentrations of some of the elements that are generally present only at minor (e.g. 200-2000 μg g À1 ) or trace (e.g. 0.1-200 μg g À1 ) levels, vary widely in their effects on plants and have attracted increasing attention during the last 50 years. The effects depend on the species, the relevant elements, and soil characteristics that influence the availability of metals to plants. Some of these soils are toxic to all or most higher plants. Others have hosted the development of specialized plant communities consisting of a restricted and locally characteristic range of metal-tolerant species. These plants often show a slightly elevated concentration of the elements with which the soil is enriched, but in places a species exhibits extreme accumulation of one or more of these elements, to a concentration level that may be hundreds or even thousands of times greater than that usually found in plants on the most common soils. These plants, now widely referred to as hyperaccumulators, are a remarkable resource for many types of fundamental scientific investigation (plant systematics, ecophysiology, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology) and for applications such as phytoremediation and agromining, and are discussed in detail below.

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Section: Nickelmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Status Of Hyperaccumulator Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Often the most ancient and undisturbed metalliferous environments support the richest assemblages of hyperaccumulator plants (e.g. Reeves et al 1996Reeves et al , 1999.…”

Section: Status Of Hyperaccumulator Plantsmentioning

confidence: 99%