Phytoextraction of high value elements and contaminants from mining and mineral wastes: opportunities and limitations

A Corzo Remigio, RL Chaney, AJM Baker, M Edraki… - Plant and Soil, 2020 - Springer
Background Phytoextraction is an in situ technique that can be applied to minerals and
mining wastes using hyperaccumulator plants to purposely bio-concentrate high levels of …

Reversing extinction trends: new uses of (old) herbarium specimens to accelerate conservation action on threatened species

G Albani Rocchetti, CG Armstrong, T Abeli… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although often not collected specifically for the purposes of conservation, herbarium
specimens offer sufficient information to reconstruct parameters that are needed to …

X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) for metallome analysis of herbarium specimens

I Purwadi, LW Casey, CG Ryan, PD Erskine… - Plant Methods, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background “Herbarium X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Ionomics” is a new quantitative
approach for extracting the elemental concentrations from herbarium specimens using …

Rare earth element (hyper) accumulation in some Proteaceae from Queensland, Australia

A van der Ent, PN Nkrumah, I Purwadi, PD Erskine - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Background and aims Proteaceae species strongly acidify their rhizosphere to increase soil
phosphorus (P) availability, which also inadvertently increases the availability of other …

Recognition of trace element hyperaccumulation based on empirical datasets derived from XRF scanning of herbarium specimens

I Purwadi, PD Erskine, LW Casey, A van der Ent - Plant and Soil, 2023 - Springer
Background and aims Hyperaccumulation is generally defined as plants exhibiting
concentrations of metal (loid) s in their shoots at least an order of magnitude higher than that …

Incidence of hyperaccumulation and tissue-level distribution of manganese, cobalt, and zinc in the genus Gossia (Myrtaceae)

F Abubakari, PN Nkrumah, DR Fernando… - Metallomics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The rare phenomenon of plant manganese (Mn) hyperaccumulation within the Australian
flora has previously been detected in the field, which suggested that the tree genus Gossia …

In-situ elemental quantitative imaging in plant leaves by LA-ICP-MS with matrix-matching external calibration

Z Cui, M He, B Chen, B Hu - Analytica Chimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to the enormous interest in plants related to bioscience, environmental and
toxicological research, analytical methods are expected with the ability of getting information …

Tools for the discovery of hyperaccumulator plant species in the field and in the herbarium

I Purwadi, V Gei, G Echevarria, PD Erskine… - Agromining: Farming for …, 2021 - Springer
Globally, the discovery of metal and metalloid hyperaccumulator plants has been hindered
by systematic screening of plant species and is highly biased towards Ni hyperaccumulators …

“Mining” the herbarium for hyperaccumulators: Discoveries of nickel and zinc (hyper)accumulation in the genus Noccaea (Brassicaceae) through X‐ray fluorescence …

K Jakovljević, T Mišljenović, A van der Ent… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
X‐ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) is a relatively new method for non‐destructive
elemental analysis of herbarium material that meets the scientific interest in being capable of …

The X-ray fluorescence screening of multiple elements in herbarium specimens from the Neotropical region reveals new records of metal accumulation in plants

C Belloeil, P Jouannais, C Malfaisan… - Metallomics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Plants have developed a diversity of strategies to take up and store essential metals in order
to colonize various types of soils including mineralized soils. Yet, our knowledge of the …