A global database for plants that hyperaccumulate metal and metalloid trace elements
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Prominent families of hyperaccumulator plants include Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Buxaceae, Cunoniaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Flacourtiaceae, Phyllanthaceae, Rubiaceae, Salicaceae, and Violaceae.
“The prominent families of plants belonging to the hyperaccumulator category include families such as Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Buxaceae, Cunoniaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Flacourtiaceae, Phyllanthaceae, Rubiaceae, Salicaceae, and Violaceae (Reeves, 2000; Krämer, 2010; Reeves et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2021).”
From Plant hyperaccumulators: a state-of-the-art review on mechanism of heavy metal transport and sequestration (2025) · cites this paper as Reeves et al., 2018
Table 2 (Additional information; page not given) lists seven of the ten named families among the main families of hyperaccumulators. It does not list Euphorbiaceae, Flacourtiaceae, or Rubiaceae, so the full list of prominent families is not supported by this source. (LLM, conf=0.88)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredGlobal hyperaccumulator databases have documented 721 metal ion hyperaccumulators, among which Ni is hyperaccumulated by about 532 plant species.
“Global hyperaccumulator databases have documented 721 metal ion hyperaccumulators, among which Ni is hyperaccumulated by about 532 plant species (Reeves et al., 2018).”
From Plant hyperaccumulators: a state-of-the-art review on mechanism of heavy metal transport and sequestration (2025) · cites this paper as Reeves et al., 2018
The “Global numbers of hyperaccumulator plants” section reports 721 hyperaccumulator species in the database as of July 2017, supporting the total. It reports 523 nickel-hyperaccumulating species, not about 532; the claim appears to transpose those digits. No page number is provided in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.92)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredReeves et al. (2018) reported hyperaccumulators of nickel (532 species), cadmium (07 species), and (05 species).
“Reeves et al. (2018) reported several hyperaccumulators of metal ions, such as Ni (532 species), followed by Cd (07 species) and (05 species).”
From Plant hyperaccumulators: a state-of-the-art review on mechanism of heavy metal transport and sequestration (2025) · cites this paper as Reeves et al., 2018
Ni hyperaccumulators outnumber plant species for other metal ions.
“Ni hyperaccumulators outnumber among plant species viz.-a-viz. other metal ions (Krämer, 2010; Reeves et al., 2018).”
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- Authors
- Reeves, R. D., Baker, A. J. M., Jaffré, T., Erskine, P. D., Echevarria, G., & van der Ent, A.
- Affiliations
- Palmerston North, 4410 New Zealand
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (NC)
- Laboratoire Sols et Environnement (FR)
- Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation Sustainable Minerals Institute The University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland, 4072 Australia
- ORCID
- Venue
- New Phytologist
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2017-11-15
- Volume
- 218
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 407-411
- ISSN
- 0028-646X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8137
- OpenAlex
- W2770668785
- Semantic Scholar
- 63b93cd992ef6cae4f1099f21165ba21ae7ae1b3
- Cited by
- 769
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
- 2026: 83 · 2025: 84 · 2024: 112 · 2023: 103 · 2022: 114 · 2021: 109 · 2020: 101 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 3
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- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling (acceptedVersion)
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- Funders
- Australian Research Council (DE160100429)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Heavy metals in environment
- Physical Sciences › Chemistry › Analytical Chemistry › Heavy Metals in Plants
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Keywords
- hyperaccumulator plants, metal hyperaccumulation, metalloids, trace elements, plant metal tolerance
- MeSH terms
- Metals, Plants, Trace Elements, X-Rays, Metalloids
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