Pteris vittata
From Ferns of Barbados. Distribution data and Internet links.
Arsenic solutions
Article on aspects of Pteris vittata as a hyperaccumulater of arsenic, treated wood and Florida.
A fern that hyperaccumulates arsenic
Article in Nature February 2001.
Effects of arsenate and phosphate on their accumulation by an arsenic-hyperaccumulator Pteris vittata L.
Abstract of article in Plant and Soil 249(2) February 2003.
Characterization of rbcS genes in the fern Pteris vittata and their photoregulation
Abstract of paper published in Planta 206:204-214 (1998).
Pteris vittata L.
Includes taxonomic information, mapped distribution in Florida, and photographic image.
Mechanisms of arsenic hyperaccumulation in Pteris vittata.
Uptake kinetics, interactions with phosphate, and arsenic speciation. Abstract of article in Plant Physiology 130(3) November 2002.
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