A nickel-accumulating plant from Western Australia
- 1 January 1972
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Planta
- Vol. 103 (1), 91-94
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00394610
Abstract
A small shrub Hybanthus floribundus (Lindl.) F. Muell. Violaceae growing in Western Australia accumulates nickel and cobalt to a very high degree. Values of up to 23% nickel in leaf ash may represent the highest relative accumulation of a metal on record. The high accumulation of nickel poses interesting problems in plant physiology and plant biochemistry.Keywords
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