Soils developed on serpentine rocks have serious limitations for agriculture. Intensive agriculture and forestry activities are carried out in the lands southwest of Turkey. Because lack information about heavy metal contents some important soil physic-chemical properties soils this area especially were aimed to be determined study. The results study showed that total Cd (5.4-6.8 mg kg-1) conce...

The so-called hyperaccumulator plants are capable of storing hundred or thousand times bigger quantities heavy metals than normal plants, which makes hyperaccumulators very useful in fields such as phytoremediation and phytomining. Among these there many serpentinophytes, i.e., that grow exclusively on ultramafic rocks produce soils with a great proportion metals. Even though multiple classific...

Specialization in plant host-symbiont-soil interactions may help mediate plant adaptation to edaphic stress. Our previous field study showed ecological evidence for host-symbiont specificity between serpentine and non-serpentine adapted ecotypes of Collinsia sparsiflora and arbuscular mycorrrhizal fungi (AMF). To test for adapted plant ecotype-AMF specificity between C. sparsiflora ecotypes and...

Low Ca/Mg ratios (a defining component of serpentine soils) and low water environmental conditions often co-occur in nature and are thought to exert strong selection pressures on natural populations. However, few studies test the individual and combined effects of these environmental factors. We investigated the effects of low Ca/Mg ratio and low water availability on plant leaf, stem, stolon, ...

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of inoculation of rhizosphere or endophytic bacteria (Psychrobacter sp. SRS8 and Pseudomonas sp. A3R3, respectively) isolated from a serpentine environment on the plant growth and the translocation and accumulation of Ni, Zn, and Fe by Brassica juncea and Ricinus communis on a multi-metal polluted serpentine soil (SS). Field collected SS was dilut...

Nickel response and accumulation were analyzed in 12 populations from seven Central-Eastern Mediterranean Odontarrhena taxa on off serpentine sites to test the presence of metal-induced growth stimulation its relationship with tolerance plant Ni concentration. Seedlings cultivated hydroponics increasing NiSO4 concentrations obtain dose-response curves evaluate levels roots shoots. In all access...