Plant Bioaccumulators of Metals - Online Resources
A while back, I posted these blog posts about experiments I was doing on extracting metals from plants that tend to bioaccumulate them from the surrounding soil.
At the time, there was a wonderful Global Hyperaccumulator Database online, hosted by a university in Australia, of bioaccumulator plants around the world. However the university was unable to secure funding to continue to host the data base online. The Principal Investigator sent me the entire data base file and gave me permission to share it on my own web site, and I am still working out the technical back end to do so, so stay tuned for that.
In the meantime, I just came across this much more limited, but still possibly helpful, data base of Dynamic Accummulator plants. You will recognize many of the plants in this data base. The most important thing to pay attention to is line 2: Dynamic accumulator thresholds (ppm). The values shown for each metal in each plant reflect the capacity of that plant to accumulate quantities below or above a threshold common to most/many plants. You will also need to understand the standard chemical symbols for each metal shown as column headers in line 1, and you can find that information here.
