Thlaspi caerulescens, an attractive model species to study heavy metal hyperaccumulation in plants

Ana G L Assunção; Henk Schat; Mark G M Aarts

doi:10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00820.x

Thlaspi caerulescens, an attractive model species to study heavy metal hyperaccumulation in plants

Ana G L Assunção, Henk Schat, Mark G M Aarts^*

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Section for Plant and Soil Sciences

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Abstract

Studying heavy metal hyperaccumulation is becoming more and more interesting for ecological, evolutionary, nutritional, and environmental reasons. One model species, especially in the era of high throughput genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics technologies, would be very advantageous. Although there are several hyperaccumulator species known, there is no single model species yet. The Zn, Cd and Ni hyperaccumulator species Thlaspi caerulescens has been studied to a great extent, especially for Zn and Cd hyperaccumulation and tolerance. Its physiological, morphological and genetic characteristics, and its close relationship to Arabidopsis thaliana, the general plant reference species, make it an excellent candidate to be the plant heavy metal hyperaccumulation model species.

Original language	English
Journal	New Phytologist
Volume	159
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	351-360
Number of pages	10
ISSN	0028-646X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00820.x
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2003

Keywords

Model species
Thlaspi caerulescens
Tolerance
Zn/Cd/Ni hyperaccumulation

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