Commentary: Toward a more physiologically and evolutionarily relevant definition of metal hyperaccumulation in plants

Front Plant Sci. 2015 Jul 22:6:554. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00554. eCollection 2015.

¹ Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia ; Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, Université de Lorraine - INRA, UMR 1120 Nancy, France.
² Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Brisbane, QLD, Australia ; Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, Université de Lorraine - INRA, UMR 1120 Nancy, France ; School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, Australia.
³ Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand.
⁴ Department of Biology, Furman University Greenville SC, USA.
⁵ Department of Genetics, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Keywords: excluder; hyperaccumulator; metal-tolerance; metallophyte; spiked soils.