Noccaea caerulescens
alpine pennycress
Synonym: Thlaspi caerulescens
Accumulation profile
- Substrate
- Metalliferous (serpentine and calamine)
- Habitat
- Serpentine and mine soils
- Distribution
- Western & Central Europe
- First reported
- 1988 · Baker & Brooks
- Verification
- review-cited
Description & ecology
Serpentine races of this species hyperaccumulate nickel, complementing the calamine races that hyperaccumulate zinc and cadmium — an unusually versatile model organism.
References
- Reeves, R. D., Baker, A. J. M., Jaffré, T., Erskine, P. D., Echevarria, G., & van der Ent, A. (2018). A global database for plants that hyperaccumulate metal and metalloid trace elements. New Phytologist, 218, 407–411. doi:10.1111/nph.14907
- Krämer, U. (2010). Metal hyperaccumulation in plants. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 61, 517–534. doi:10.1146/annurev-arplant-042809-112156