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Moss Biocrusts Regulate Heavy Metal Speciation and Mobility in Coal Mine Soils

Land Degradation &Development, Volume 37, Issue 15, Page 10979-10992, September 2026.
ABSTRACT On a global scale, coal mining activities often lead to heavy metal(loid) contamination in soils of mine dump sites, posing serious ecological risks. As ecosystem “engineers,” biological soil crusts (biocrusts)—especially moss crust—have shown great potential in remediating heavy metal‐polluted soils, but their roles remain underexplored.
Song Guang, Yang Haotian, Wang Xinyu, Li Guoxin, Zheng Ying   +4 more
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In Situ Phytoremediation of Mine Tailings with High Concentrations of Cadmium and Lead Using Dodonaea viscosa (Sapindaceae)

Plants
The waste generated during metal mining activities contains mixtures of heavy metals (HM) that are not biodegradable and can accumulate in the surrounding biota, increasing risk to human and environmental health.
Luis Fernando Acosta-Núñez, Patricia Mussali-Galante, María Luisa Castrejón-Godínez, Alexis Rodríguez-Solís, Joel Daniel Castañeda-Espinoza, Efraín Tovar-Sánchez   +5 more
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Transfer of Potentially Toxic Metal(loid)s From Ultramafic Soils in a Tri‐Trophic Food Chain Experiment

Ecological Research, Volume 41, Issue 5, September 2026.
Potentially toxic metal(loid)s (PTMs) bioaccumulated across a plant‐herbivore‐predator food chain. Irrespective of soil concentrations, female crickets actively selected PTM‐enriched leaves, while predatory mantids showed no developmental impairment. Trophic transfer of PTMs was rather influenced more by a function of intrinsic species traits than by ...
João Marcelo‐Silva, Tean Francois Joubert, Stefan John Siebert, Bianca Greyvenstein   +3 more
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Serpentine Biocrust Microbes Maintain Nitrogen Cycling Under Drought and Heavy Metal Stress

Ecological Research, Volume 41, Issue 5, September 2026.
This study highlights the complex interplay between soil geochemistry and moisture availability in shaping microbial communities within wetter and drier serpentine and non‐serpentine biological soil crusts. It demonstrates that both factors influence the structure of nitrogen‐cycling microbial communities and the processes they mediate.
Sandra Barnard, Oluwatobi Barachiah, Stefan J. Siebert, Danielle Botha, Sarina Claassens   +4 more
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Cross‐Species Plasticity and Divergence Under Alkaline Soil Signature Conditions Differentiating PYE From FIT Target Transcripts in the Arabidopsis thaliana Ferrome

Plant, Cell &Environment, Volume 49, Issue 9, Page 6719-6736, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Soil pH is an influential abiotic environmental factor. Here, we identify responses to central stimuli associated with calcareous alkaline soils in Arabidopsis and comparatively explore the potential of the closely related Arabidopsis halleri for addressing how plants cope with local soil pH.
Gen Yang, Hans Simon Metze, Ute Krämer
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Cellular compartmentation of zinc in leaves of the hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens

, 1999
Cellular compartmentation of Zn in the leaves of the hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens was investigated using energydispersive x-ray microanalysis and single-cell sap extraction.
Zhao, Fang Jie, Zhao, F-J., McGrath, Steve P., McGrath, S. P., Küpper, Hendrik, Kupper, H.   +5 more
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Revisiting the functional strategy of herbaceous metallophytes helps understanding leaf metal accumulation

Ecological Monographs, Volume 96, Issue 3, August 2026.
Abstract Plant physiological adaptations to metal‐rich soils consist either in metal exclusion or in metal (hyper)accumulation in leaves and aboveground tissues. However, the relationship between these adaptations and the functional strategies developed by metallophytes to sustain their development is unknown.
Florian Delerue, Maxime Pauwels, Hélène Frérot, Sandra Díaz, Hugo Randé, Valentin Mauro, Federico Selvi, Ilaria Colzi, Eyal Grossman, Marion Sarah Deville‐Cavellin, Kohmei Kadowaki, Alexandra Coynel, Marie De Boisvilliers, Thomas Dewez, Johanne Gresse, Valérie Sappin‐Didier, Christophe Nguyen, Richard Michalet   +17 more
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Cadmium hyperaccumulation in Sedum alfredii: from rhizosphere mobilization to vacuolar sequestration and field application

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Cadmium (Cd) contamination of agricultural soils threatens human health through food-chain exposure and prevents the safe reuse of degraded land. Phytoextraction is attractive because it removes metals in situ with limited soil disturbance, yet field ...
Yangchun Zhu, Yangchun Zhu, Guoyin Yuan, Chengsen Zhao, Chen Cheng, Jing Yang, Fenghua Ding, Min Chen, Min Chen, Min Chen   +9 more
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Indole-3-acetic acid synthesizing chromium-resistant bacteria can mitigate chromium toxicity in Helianthus annuus L.

Plant, Soil and Environment, 2020
Use of microorganisms as heavy metal remediators is an effective approach for chromium reduction in plants. Chromium carcinogenicity (Cr6+) beyond the permissible levels elicits environmental and health problems.
Hadia-E-Fatima, Ambreen Ahmed
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Effects of Organic and Inorganic Fertilizers on Biomass Production and Nickel Yield in the Hyperaccumulator Bornmuellera emarginata Under Field Conditions

Ecological Research, Volume 41, Issue 4, July 2026.
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of fertilization regime (organic vs. inorganic) on the growth performance, nickel accumulation, and total nickel yield of the nickel hyperaccumulator Bornmuellera emarginata, cultivated under realistic field conditions in its native ultramafic environment in Northern Greece over a 3‐year period ...
Dimitrios Kyrkas, Nikolaos Mantzos, Guillaume Echevarria, Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos, Maria Konstantinou   +4 more
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