Bothe, Hermann, Katarina, Vogel-Mikus, Pongrac, Paula ORCID: 0000-0003-0721-7555, Matevz, Likar, Neva, Stepic, Primoz, Pelicon, Primoz, Vavpetic, Luka, Jeromel and Marjana, Regvar (2013). Metallophyte status of violets of the section Melanium. Chemosphere, 93 (9). S. 1844 - 1856. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1879-1298

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Abstract

Violets from metal-enriched soils have controversially been described as both heavy-metal accumulators and excluders in the literature. The present study solves the issue for violets of the section Melanium (zinc violets, Viola lutea ssp. calaminaria and V. lutea ssp. westfalica; hartsease or wild pansy, Viola tricolor; and mountain pansy, V. lutea). The aims were to determine the concentrations of heavy metals in the soil and in the roots and shoots of field-collected plants, to evaluate the potential impact of colonisation by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on heavy-metal concentrations in the plant tissues, and to quantitatively define the localisation of the elements in root cross-sections. When these violets grow in low-metal soils, higher concentrations of the heavy metals were found in the roots and shoots than in the soil, whereas the opposite was seen in samples from high-metal soils. Under all field conditions examined, the roots of all of these species were colonised by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. However, V. tricolor was marginally colonised when the concentrations of Zn and P were higher in the soil. Determination of the spatial distribution of the elements in root cross-sections of these violets indicates tissue-specific deposition of elements within the vascular tissue, the cortex, and the rhizodermis. These data indicate that violets of the section Melanium are heavy-metal excluders. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type: Journal Article
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CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Bothe, HermannUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Katarina, Vogel-MikusUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Pongrac, PaulaUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0003-0721-7555UNSPECIFIED
Matevz, LikarUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Neva, StepicUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Primoz, PeliconUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Primoz, VavpeticUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Luka, JeromelUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Marjana, RegvarUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-473362
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.06.039
Journal or Publication Title: Chemosphere
Volume: 93
Number: 9
Page Range: S. 1844 - 1856
Date: 2013
Publisher: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication: OXFORD
ISSN: 1879-1298
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI; HEAVY-METAL; NUCLEAR MICROPROBE; ZINC VIOLETS; COLONIZATION; PLANTS; BRASSICACEAE; PIXE; CD; HYPERACCUMULATIONMultiple languages
Environmental SciencesMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/47336

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