Arsenic hyperaccumulator Pteris Vittata L. and its arsenic ac-cumulation

2002/01/01 by Tongbin Chen, Tongbin CHEN · 1 voice · 229 citations
Chemistry · Environmental Science · #Arsenic #Arsenic contamination and mitigation #Chemistry #Environmental chemistry #Heavy Metals in Plants #Heavy metals #Heavy metals in environment #Hyperaccumulator #Phytoremediation #Pteris vittata

paper · doi:10.1360/02tb9202

published in Chinese Science Bulletin 47(11), 902 (Springer Nature)

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Discussions

• Pteris vittata (#Pteridaceae) is a fern widespread in the Old World (& widely naturalized in the New). It hyperaccumulates arsenic! ☠️ There’s wide variation in how much arsenic it accumulates—sometim [bsky, 28 points, 1 comments]