Hyperaccumulators table – 2 : Nickel

This list covers known nickel hyperaccumulators, accumulators or plant species tolerant to nickel.

See also:

• Hyperaccumulators table – 1 : Ag, Al, As, Be, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mn, Mo, Naphthalene, Pb, Pd, Se, Zn
• Hyperaccumulators table – 3 : Cd, Cs, Co, Pu, Ra, Sr, U, radionuclides, hydrocarbons, organic solvents, etc.

hyperaccumulators and contaminants : Ni – accumulation rates

Contaminant	Accumulation rates (in mg/kg of dry weight)	Latin name	English name	H-Hyperaccumulator or A-Accumulator P-Precipitator T-Tolerant	Notes	Sources
Ni	9090	Alyssum akamasicum B.L. Burtt (Brassica)			Distrib. Cyprus	[1]
Ni	4480	Alyssum alpestre L (Brassica)			Distrib. S. Europe	[1]
Ni	8170	Alyssum anatolicum Nyar. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	29400	Alyssum argenteum All. (Brassica)			Distrib. Italy	[1]
Ni	10200	Alyssum bertolonii subsp. Scutarinum Nyar. (Brassica)			Distrib. Balkans	[1]
Ni	10900	Alyssum callicrum Boiss. and Balansa (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	16500	Alyssum carcium T.R. Dudley & Huber-Morath (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	20000	Alyssum cassium Boiss. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	16300	Alyssum chondrogynum B.L. Blurtt (Brassica)			Distrib. Cyprus	[1]
Ni	13500	Alyssum cilicium Boiss. and Balansa (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	4900	Alyssum condensatum Boiss. And Hausskn. (Brassica)			Distrib. Iraq, Syria	[1]
Ni	18100	Alyssum constellatum Boiss. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	13500	Alyssum corsicum Duby (Brassica)			Distrib. Corsica	[1]
Ni	10400	Alyssum crenulatum Boiss. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	23600	Alyssum cypricum Nyar. (Brassica)			Distrib. Cyprus	[1]
Ni	19600	Alyssum davisianum T.R. Dudley (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	11700	Alyssum discolor T.R. Dudley & Huber-Morah (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	16500	Alyssum dubertretii gomb (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	4550	Alyssum euboeum Halacsy (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	11500	Alyssum eriophyllum Boiss. and Hausskn. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	3960	Alyssum fallacinum Boiss. and Balansa (Brassica)			Distrib. Crete	[1]
Ni	7700	Alyssum floribundum Boiss. and Balansa (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	7390	Alyssum giosnanum Nyar. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	12500	Alyssum heldreichii Hausskn. (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece. Concentration of nickel in the seeds (1880 mg/g d. w.) is much lower than that in other plant parts.[2]	[1]
Ni	13500	Alyssum huber-morathii T.R.Dudley (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	22400	Alyssum lesbiacum (P. candargi) Rech.f. (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	13700	Alyssum markgrafii O.E. Schulz (Brassica)			Distrib. Albania	[1]
Ni	24300	Alyssum masmenkaeum Boiss. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	7080	Alyssum murale Wealdstandkit (Brassica)			Distrib. Balkans	[1]
Ni	4590	Alyssum obovatum (C.A. Mey) Turez (Brassica)			Distrib. Russia	[1]
Ni	7290	Alyssum oxycarpum Boiss. And Balansa (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	7600	Alyssum peltarioides subsp. Virgatiforme Nyar. T.R. Dudley) (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	21100	Alyssum pinifolium (Nyar.) T.R. Dudley (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	22200	Alyssum pterocarpum T.R. Dudley (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	12500	Alyssum robertianum Bernard ex Godronand Gren (Brassica)			Distrib. Corsica	[1]
Ni	7860	Alyssum penjwinensis T.R. Dudley (Brassica)			Distrib. Iraq	[1]
Ni	18900	Alyssum samariferum Boiss. & Hausskn. (Brassica)			Distrib. Samar	[1]
Ni	up to 10,000 (leaves)	Alyssum serpyllifolium (Brassica)			Distrib. Portugal	[1]
Ni	1280	Alyssum singarense Boiss. And Hausskn. (Brassica)			Distrib. Iraq	[1]
Ni	10200	Alyssum syriacum Nyar. (Brassica)			Distrib. Syria	[1]
Ni	6600	Alyssum smolikanum Nyar. (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	3420	Alyssum tenium Halacsy (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	11900	Alyssum trapeziforme Nyar. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	17100	Alyssum trodii Boiss. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	6230	Alyssum virgatum Nyar. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni		Azolla filiculoides	Pacific mosquitofern	Cu(A), Pb(A), Mn(A)	Origin Africa; floating plant	[3]
Ni	11400	Bornmuellaria sp. petri Greuter Charpion et Dittrich (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	21300	Bornmuellaria baldacii (Degen) Heywood (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	19200	Bornmuellaria glabrescens (Boiss. & Balansa) Cullen & T.R. Dudley (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	31200	Bornmuellaria tymphea (Hausskn.) Hausskn. (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni		Brassicaeae		Cd(H), Cs(H), Ni(H), Sr(H), Zn(H)	Phytoextraction	[4]
Ni		Brassica juncea	Indian mustard	Cd(A), Cr(A), Cu(A), Pb(A), Pb(P), U(A), Zn(A)	cultivated	[3][4][5]
Ni	H-	Burkea africana			Elevated levels of Ni in the embryonic axis in the seeds.[6]
Ni	1050	Cardamine resedifolia L. (Brassica)			Distrib. Italy	[1]
Ni	540–1220	Cuscuta californica var. breviflora Engelm. (Cuscutaceae)			A parasite of Streptanthus polygaloides as well as other species, it can accumulate Ni if the plant host contains some. See 'metal tolerance' in Phytoremediation article.	[7]
Ni		Helianthus annuus	Sunflower		Phytoextraction & rhizofiltration	[4]
Ni		Hybanthus floribundus	Shrub violet			[8][9]
Ni		Ocimum centraliafricanum	Copper plant	Cu(T), Ni(T)	Origin Southern Africa	[10]
Ni	18900	Peltaria dumulosa Post (Brassica)			Distrib. Asia	[1]
Ni	34400	Peltaria emarginata (Boiss.) Hausskn. (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	3140[1]	Pseudosempervirum sempervium Boiss. And Balansa) Pobed (Brassica)			372 plants noted; origin California (distrib. Turkey[1])	[8][11]
Ni	17600[1]	Pseudosempervirum aucheri (Boiss.) Pobed (Brassica)			372 plants noted; origin California (distrib. Turkey[1])	[8][11]
Ni	14,900 to 27,700, up to 32,000[12]	Psychotria douarrei		Older leaves contain more Ca, Fe, and Cr than younger leaves, but less K, P, and Cu. Zn, Pb, Co, Mn, Mg show no significant variation due to leaf age.[12]	Origin New Caledonia; 372 records of plants.[8] Ni contents in leaves of P. douarrei vary considerably due to leaf age.[12]	[11]
Ni	17500	Rinorea bengalensis		Ni(H)	Origin Asia
Ni	18000	Rinorea niccolifera	none	Ni(H)	Origin Philippines	[13]
Ni	H-	Salvinia molesta	Water Fern	Cr(H), Ni(H), Pb(H), Zn(A)	Origin India	[3]
Ni	H-up to 26% in xylem	Sebertia acuminata			Origin Caledonia	[1]
Ni	H-	Senecio coronatus			Presence of nickel in the part of the fruit covering the radicle and in the radicle itself.[14]
Ni	1000	Shorea tenuiramulosa (Dipterocarpaceae)			Philippine tree	Proctor et al. . (1989)
Ni		Spirodela polyrhiza	Giant Duckweed	Cd(H), Cr(H), Pb(H), Zn(A)	Native to North America	[3][8][15]
Ni	21,500	Stackhousia tryonii Bailey (Stackhousiaceae)			Origin western Australia	Batianoff et al. 1990.
Ni	14800	Streptanthus polygaloides Gray (Brassica)	Milkwort Jewelflower		Ni-hyperaccumulation protects S. polygaloides against fungal and bacterial pathogens.	[1]
Ni	2000	Thlaspi bulbosum Spruner ex Boiss. (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	16200[1]	Thlaspi caerulescens	Alpine pennycress	Cd(H), Cr(A), Co(H), Cu(H), Mo(H), Pb(H), Zn(H)	phytoextraction	[1][3][4][8][16][17][18][19]
Ni	52120	Thlaspi cypricum Brnm. (Brassica)			Distrib. Cyprus	[1]
Ni	20800	Thlaspi elegans Boiss. (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	3000	Thlaspi epirotum Halacsy (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	12000	Thlaspi goesingense Halacsy (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	2440	Thlaspi japonicum H. Boissieu (Brassica)			Distrib. Japan	[1]
Ni	26900	Thlaspi jaubertii Hedge (Brassica)			Distrib. Turkey	[1]
Ni	13600	Thlaspi Kovatsii Heuffel (Brassica)			Distrib. Yugoslavia	[1]
Ni	5530	Thlaspi montanum L. var. Montanum (Brassica)			Distrib. U.S.A. Ni-hyperaccumulation protects T. montanum against fungal and bacterial pathogens.	[1]
Ni	H-	Thlaspi pindicum (Brassica)			Sp. endemic to serpentine soils in Greece and Albania. Ni relatively abundant in some parts of the seed (mainly the micropyle).[20]
Ni	4000	Thlaspi ochroleucum Boiss. and Heldr. (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	35600	Thlaspi oxyceras (Boiss.) Hedge (Brassica)			distrib. Turkey, Syria	[1]
Ni	18300	Thlaspi rotundifolium (L.) Gaudin var. corymbosum (Gay) (Brassica)			Central Europe	[1]
Ni	31000	Thlaspi sylvium (as T. alpinim subsp. Sylvium) (Brassica)			Central Europe	[1]
Ni	1800	Thlaspi tymphaneum Hausskn. (Brassica)			Distrib. Greece	[1]
Ni	7000 ( only 54 in fruits)	Walsura monophylla Elm. (Meliaceae)			Origin Philippines.	Baker et al. (1992) [21]

Notes

• In the genus Alyssum, free histamin (His) is an important Ni binding ligand that increases in the xylem proportionately to root Ni uptake. There is a close correlation between Ni tolerance, root His concentration, and ATP-PRT transcript abundance. Thus ATP-PRT expression may play a major role in regulating the pool of free His and contributes to the exceptional Ni tolerance of hyperaccumulator Alyssum species. But this is not the complete hyperaccumulator phenotype because His-(GM-)overproducing lines do not exhibit increased Ni concentrations in either xylem sap or shoot tissue.[22]
• Alpine pennycress or «Alpine Pennygrass» is also found as «Alpine Pennycrest» in (some books).

Reference sources with notes

• The references are so far mostly from academic trial papers, experiments and generally of exploration of that field.

1. Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Nickelophilous plants and their significance in phytotechnologies. Braz. J. Plant Physiol. Vol.17 no.1 Londrina Jan./Mar. 2005
2. Brooks RR, Phytochemistry of hyperaccumulators. In: Brooks RR, ed. Plants that hyperaccumulate heavy metals. New York, 1998: CAB International, 15-53, cited in Nickel Localization in Seeds of the Metal Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi pindicum Hausskn., par G. K. Psaras and Y. Manetas. Annals of Botany 88: 513-516, 2001
3. McCutcheon & Schnoor 2003, Phytoremediation. New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons pg 898
4. McCutcheon & Schnoor 2003, Phytoremediation. New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons pg 19
5. B. Muthukumar, B. Yakubov, DE Salt: Transcriptional activation and localization of expression of Brassica juncea putative metal transport protein BjMTP1 BMC Plant Biology 2007, 7:32 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-7-32
6. E.T.F. Witkowski, I.M Weiersbye-Witkowski, W.J. Przybylowicz, J. Mesjasz-Przybylowicz: Nuclear microprobe studies of elemental distributions in dormant seeds of Burkea africana. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 1997, B130: 381-387
7. R.S. Boyd and S.N. Martens. The significance of metal hyperaccumulation for biotic interactions. Chemoecology 8 (1998) pp.1–7
8. McCutcheon & Schnoor 2003, Phytoremediation. New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons pg 891
9. Reeves 1992
10. Howard-Williams, C. (1970). "The ecology of Becium homblei in Central Africa with special reference to metalliferous soils". Journal of Ecology. 58 (3): 745–763. doi:10.2307/2258533. JSTOR 2258533.
11. Brooks et al. 1977
12. R.S. Boyd, T. Jaffré and J. W. Odom. Variation in Nickel Content in the Nickel-Hyperaccumulating Shrub Psychotria douarrei (Rubiaceae) from New Caledonia. Biotropica, Volume 31 Page 403 - September 1999. Ni contents in leaves of P. douarrei vary considerably due to leaf age. Older leaves contain twice as much Ni as younger leaves, and leaf Ni content does not correlate significantly with neither plant size nor soil Ni content. Variations in accumulation differ greatly among branches within individuals as well as between individuals, but this intraplant variability was not strongly correlated with the mean leaf Ni content of an individual shrub. Epiphyll cover is increased on the upper surface of older leaves. The dominant leafy liverwort epiphyll contains 400ppm (relatively high), suggesting that epiphylls of Ni hyperaccumulators obtain some Ni from host leaves
13. Fernando, E.; Quimado, M.; Doronila, A. (2014). "Rinorea niccolifera (Violaceae), a new, nickel-hyperaccumulating species from Luzon Island, Philippines". PhytoKeys. 37 (37): 1–13. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.37.7136. PMC 4023331. PMID 24843295.
14. Przybylowicz WJ, Pineda CA, Prozesky VM, Mesjasz-Przybylowicz J., Investigation of Ni hyperaccumulation by the true elemental imageing. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 1995, B104: 176-181
15. Srivastav 1994
16. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2006-10-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Conseil National de Recherches du Canada, Influence of the zinc hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens J. & C. Presl. and the nonmetal accumulator Trifolium pratense L. on soil microbial populations, par T.A. Delorme, J.V. Gagliardi, J.S. Angle, et R.L. Chaney
17. Baker & Brooks, 1989
18. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-03-11. Retrieved 2006-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) E. Lombi, F.J. Zhao, S.J. Dunham et S.P. McGrath, Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal, Contaminated Soils, Natural Hyperaccumulation versus Chemically Enhanced Phytoextraction.
19. Phytoremediation Decision Tree, ITRC
20. G. K. Psaras and Y. Manetas, Nickel Localization in Seeds of the Metal Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi pindicum Hausskn.. Annals of Botany 88: 513-516, 2001
21. A.J.M. Baker, J. Proctor, M.M.J. van Balgooy, R.D. Reeves. Hyperaccumulation of nickel by the flora of the ultramafics of Palawan, Republic of the Philippines. Pp 291–304 in Baker AJM, Proctor J, Reeves RD (eds) The Vegetation of Ultramafic (Serpentine) Soils. GB-Andover: Intercept (1992)
22. Robert A. Ingle, Sam T. Mugford, Jonathan D. Rees, Malcolm M. Campbell and J. Andrew C. Smith, Constitutively High Expression of the Histidine Biosynthetic Pathway Contributes to Nickel Tolerance in Hyperaccumulator Plants. The Plant Cell 2005, 17:2089-2106. Full text online.

See also

• Phytoremediation, Hyperaccumulators
• List of hyperaccumulators
• Hyperaccumulators table – 3