Roger D. REEVES, Nezaket ADIGÜZEL, Alan J. M. BAKER

Nickel Hyperaccumulation in Bornmuellera kiyakii Aytaç & Aksoy and Associated Plants of the Brassicaceae from Kızıldağ (Derebucak, Konya-Turkey)

Recent exploration of an area of ultramafic geology in south-western Turkey led to the discovery and description of a new species, Bornmuellera kiyakii Aytaç & Aksoy (Brassicaceae). This was of particular interest to us because of the earlier discovery of nickel hyperaccumulation (Ni concentrations exceeding 0.1% of plant dry weight) in 6 other taxa in this small genus from Albania, Greece, and Turkey. We report herein that B. kiyakii is also a Ni hyperaccumulator, based on a population near Çamlık that showed a mean Ni concentration exceeding 8000 mg kg-1 of dried leaf material. Several other members of the Brassicaceae at the same site-species of Alyssum L., Pseudosempervivum (Boiss.) Grossh. (formerly in Cochlearia L.) and Thlaspi L.-also act as Ni hyperaccumulators.

Nickel Hyperaccumulation in Bornmuellera kiyakii Aytaç & Aksoy and Associated Plants of the Brassicaceae from Kızıldağ (Derebucak, Konya-Turkey)

Keywords:

Bornmuellera, nickel, hyperaccumulation,

PDF

___

Adıgüzel N & Reeves RD (2002). A new nickel-accumulating species of Alyssum (Cruciferae) from western Turkey. Edinburgh J Bot 59: 215-219.
Akeroyd JR (1993). Bornmuellera Hausskn. In: Tutin TG et al. (eds.), Flora Europaea, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, p. 52. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Al-Shehbaz IA, Mutlu B & Dönmez AA (2007). The Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) of Turkey, updated. Turk J Bot 31: 327-336.
Angle JS, Chaney RL, Baker AJM., Li Y, Reeves RD, Volk V, Roseberg R, Brewer E, Burke S & Nelkin J (2001). Developing commercial phytoextraction technologies: practical considerations. S Afr J Sci 97: 619-623.
Aytaç Z & Aksoy A (2000). A new species of Bornmuellera Hausskn. from south Anatolia, Turkey. Bot J Linn Soc 134: 485-490.
Brooks RR & Radford CC (1978). Nickel accumulation by European species of the genus Alyssum. Proc Roy Soc Lond B200: 217-224.
Brooks RR, Lee J, Reeves RD & Jaffré T (1977). Detection of nickeliferous rocks by analysis of herbarium specimens of indicator plants. J Geochem Explor 7: 49-57.
Brooks RR, Morrison RS, Reeves RD, Dudley TR & Akman Y (1979). Hyperaccumulation of nickel by Alyssum Linnaeus (Cruciferae). Proc Roy Soc Lond B203: 387-403.
Contandriopoulos J & Quézel P (1976). Contribution à l’étude de la flore du Taurus et de l’Amanus. Bull Soc Bot Fr 123: 415-432.
Cullen J (1965). Bornmuellera Hausskn. In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey, Vol. 1, Edinburgh Univ. Press, Edinburgh, pp. 358-359.
Doksopulo EP (1961). Nickel in rocks, water and plants adjacent to the talc deposits of the Chorchanskaya group. Izdatel Tbiliskovo Unversitet, Tbilisi.
Greuter W (1986). Some notes on Bornmuellera in Greece, and an interspecific hybrid in the Alysseae (Cruciferae). Candollea 30: 13-20.
IUCN (1994). Red List Categories. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN Species Survival Commission.
IUCN (2001). IUCN Red List Categories. Version 3.1. IUCN Species Survival Commission. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Jaffré T, Brooks RR, Lee J & Reeves RD (1976). Sebertia acuminate, a hyperaccumulator of nickel from New Caledonia. Science 193: 579-580.
Kruckeberg AR, Adıgüzel N & Reeves RD (1999). Glimpses of the flora and ecology of Turkish (Anatolian) serpentines. Karaca Arbor Mag 5: 67-86.
Minguzzi C & Vergnano O (1948). Il contenuto di nichel nelle ceneri di Alyssum bertolonii Desv. Atti Soc Tosc Sci Nat, Mem Ser A 55: 49-77.
Reeves RD (1988). Nickel and zinc accumulation by species of Thlaspi L., Cochlearia L. and other genera of the Brassicaceae. Taxon 37: 309-318.
Reeves RD (1992). Hyperaccumulation of nickel by serpentine plants. In: Proctor J, Baker AJM & Reeves RD (eds.) The Vegetation of Ultramafic (Serpentine) Soils, pp. 253-277. Andover, UK: Intercept Ltd.
Reeves RD & Adıgüzel N (2004). Rare plants and nickel accumulators from Turkish serpentine soils, with special reference to Centaurea species. Turk J Bot 28: 147-153.
Reeves RD & Baker AJM (2000). Metal accumulating plants. In: Raskin I & Ensley B (eds.), Phytoremediation of Toxic Metals: Using Plants to Clean Up the Environment, pp. 193-229. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Reeves RD & Brooks RR (1983). European species of Thlaspi L. (Cruciferae) as indicators of nickel and zinc. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 18: 275-283.
Reeves RD, Brooks RR & Press JR. (1980). Nickel accumulation by species of Peltaria Jacq. (Cruciferae). Taxon 29: 629-633.
Reeves RD, Brooks RR & Dudley TR (1983). Uptake of nickel by species of Alyssum, Bornmuellera and other genera of Old World Tribus Alysseae. Taxon 32: 184-192.
Reeves RD, Baker AJM & Kelepertsis A (1997). The distribution and biogeochemistry of some serpentine plants of Greece. In: Jaffré T, Reeves RD & Becquer T (eds.), Écologie des milieux sur roches ultramafiques et sur sols métallifères. Documents Scientifiques et Techniques No. III/2, ORSTOM, Nouméa. pp. 205-207.
Reeves RD, Baker AJM, Borhidi A & Berazaín R (1999). Nickel hyperaccumulation in the serpentine flora of Cuba. Ann Bot 83:29-38.
Reeves RD, Kruckeberg AR, Adıgüzel N & Krämer U (2001). Studies on the flora of serpentine and other metalliferous areas of western Turkey. S Afr J Sci 97: 513-517.
Stevanovic′ V, Kit Tan & Iatrou G (2003). Distribution of the endemic Balkan flora on serpentine. I. Obligate serpentine endemics. Plant Syst Evol 242: 149-170.
Tutin TG, Heywood VH, Burges NA, Valentine DH, Walters SM & Webb DA (1964). Flora Europaea, Vol. 1, pp. 306-307. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.