Tolerance to heavy metals in plants is a model process used to study adaptations to
extremely unfavorable environments. One species capable of colonizing areas with high …

Polluted soils promote rapid plant adaptation to high concentrations of trace metal elements.
Biscutella laevigata is a little investigated pseudometallophyte that appears promising to …

The toxic effect of nickel (Ni) on cell division on root-meristem cells in seedlings of Plantago
lanceolata L. was studied and compared. Seed material was collected from serpentine and …

Biscutella laevigata L. is known as a Tl hyperaccumulator. In Poland Biscutella laevigata
occurs in the Tatra Mts (Western Carpathians) and on the calamine waste heap in Bolesław …

A new taxon Biscutella laevigata subsp. woycickii (Brassicaceae) is described from southern
Poland. The taxon is similar to B. laevigata subsp. gracilis, but differs in having thin, light …

In the era of increasing environmental pollution, microevolutionary processes occurring in
plants inhabiting anthropogenic areas play a special role. With time, these processes may …

1, 2, 3 Department of Ecotoxicology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology,
University of Warsaw Ilji Miecznikowa 1 St., 02-096 Warsaw 1 e-mail: olga. bemowska …

The paper presents an account of the successful intentional introduction of the mountain
species Biscutella laevigata to a lowland locality, as a result of field experiment-biological …

1, 2, 3, 5 Department of Ecotoxicology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Faculty of Biology,
University of Warsaw, Ilji Miecznikowa 1 St., 02-096 Warsaw 1 e-mail: olga. bemowska …

The costs of Biscutella laevigata adaptation, a facultative metallophyte, to an environment
polluted with heavy metals were established by analyzing the differences in embryological …