Claim · model-written summary
Heavy metals or metalloids increased whole-plant contaminant accumulation by 8758.9% relative to controls.
- Taxon
- Woody plantse0
- Organ / stage
- whole-plante3
- Treatment
- Heavy metals or metalloidse1
- Outcome
- contaminant accumulatione3
- Direction
- increasinge3
- Value
- 8758.9%e3
- Comparator
- controle2
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundInteractorInteractor roleSecond interactorSecond interactor roleSettingQualifier
Verbatim
e0“Woody plants show great potential in phytoremediation”
e1“Heavy metals or metalloids reduced biomass by 18.2%-25.1%”
e2“with log response ratios calculated from treatment and control means”
e3“increasing contaminant accumulation in whole-plant, aboveground, and underground tissues by 8758.9%, 1275.6%, and 1689.4%, respectively”
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 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 Tamarix 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.