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Tamarix showed metal-specific accumulation or growth responses under cadmium, lead or zinc exposure.
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e5“Ilex, Ficus, Euonymus, Platycladus, Tamarix and Salix showed metal-specific accumulation or growth responses under cadmium, lead or zinc exposure”
Title
Zhongyu Du; Yan Jiang; Shufeng Wang; et al. Communications Earth & Environment 2026. doi:10.1038/s43247-026-03637-2
Other claims from this paper (15)
- Intervention effect Heavy metals or metalloids reduced woody plant biomass by 18.2%-25.1% compared with controls.
- Intervention effect Heavy metals or metalloids increased whole-plant contaminant accumulation by 8758.9% relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Heavy metals or metalloids increased aboveground contaminant accumulation by 1275.6% relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Heavy metals or metalloids increased underground contaminant accumulation by 1689.4% relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Leaf superoxide dismutase increased by 24.2% under heavy metal exposure relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Leaf peroxidase increased by 34.2% under heavy metal exposure relative to controls.
- Intervention effect Leaf malondialdehyde increased by 29.3% under heavy metal exposure relative to controls.
- Association Ilex showed metal-specific accumulation or growth responses under cadmium, lead or zinc exposure.
- Association Ficus showed metal-specific accumulation or growth responses under cadmium, lead or zinc exposure.
- Association Euonymus showed metal-specific accumulation or growth responses under cadmium, lead or zinc exposure.
- Association Platycladus showed metal-specific accumulation or growth responses under cadmium, lead or zinc exposure.
- Association Salix showed metal-specific accumulation or growth responses under cadmium, lead or zinc exposure.
- Association Plant genus, environmental pH and metallic type predicted woody plant dendroremediation performance.
- Association Metal concentration predicted woody plant dendroremediation performance.
- Recommendation The authors recommend selecting woody plants for soil dendroremediation on the basis of these findings.