hyperaccumulator

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hyper- +‎ accumulator

Noun[edit]

hyperaccumulator (plural hyperaccumulators)

  1. (biology) Any plant that can accumulate large quantities of trace elements from its environment, and thus may be used in phytoremediation or phytomining.
    • 2000, Donald L. Wise, Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils‎[1], page 735:
      Hyperaccumulator species are able to accumulate higher metal concentrations in their shoots than surrounding nonaccumulator plants, even from soils containing nonphytotoxic background levels of metals [35-37].
    • 2008, M. N. V. Prasad, Trace Elements as Contaminants and Nutrients‎[2], page 72:
      Also, the progress of constructing ideal hyperaccumulators by using biological technologies is slow.
    • 2010, Peter M. Kopittke, Enzo Lombi, Neal W. Menzies, Ravi Naidu, “21: Principles of Plant-based Remediation of Contaminated Soils”, in Bharat P. Singh, editor, Industrial Crops and Uses, page 448:
      To date, over 400 species have been identified as hyperaccumulators, with this number increasing continuously as new species are identified (Baker et al., 2000).

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