NiO (s)(bunsenite) is not available to Alyssum species

Plant Soil (2009) 319:219–223 DOI 10.1007/s11104-008-9863-2

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NiO(s) (bunsenite) is not available to Alyssum species Guido Fellet & Tiziana Centofanti & Rufus L. Chaney & Carrie E. Green

Received: 17 September 2008 / Accepted: 11 December 2008 / Published online: 17 January 2009 # US Government 2009

Abstract To determine if the Ni-hyperaccumulator Alyssum corsicum can absorb Ni from the kinetically inert crystalline mineral NiO(s) (bunsenite). A. corsicum and A. montanum plants were grown for 30 days in a serpentine Hoagland solution. NiO was provided at 0 or 0.1 g L−1 (1.34 mmol L−1) as reagent grade NiO particles