This list covers known nickel hyperaccumulators, accumulators or plant species tolerant to nickel.
See also: Hyperaccumulators table – 1: Ag, Al, As, Be, Cr, Cu, Hg, Mn, Mo, Naphthalene, Pb, Pd, Se, Zn Hyperaccumulators table – 3: Cd, Cs, Co, Pu, Ra, Sr, U, radionuclides, hydrocarbons, organic solvents, etc.
+ hyperaccumulators and contaminants : Ni – accumulation rates Contaminant Accumulation rates (in mg/kg of dry weight) Latin name English name H-Hyperaccumulator or A-Accumulator P-Precipitator T-Tolerant Notes Sources Ni 9090 Alyssum akamasicum B.L. Burtt (Brassica) Distrib. Cyprus Majeti Narasimha Vara Prasad, Nickelophilous plants and their significance in phytotechnologies. Braz. J. Plant Physiol. Vol.17 no.1 Londrina Jan./Mar. 2005 Ni 4480 Alyssum alpestre L (Brassica) Distrib. S. Europe Ni 8170 Alyssum anatolicum Nyar. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 29400 Alyssum argenteum All. (Brassica) Distrib. Italy Ni 10200 Alyssum bertolonii subsp. Scutarinum Nyar. (Brassica) Distrib. Balkans Ni 10900 Alyssum callicrum Boiss. and Balansa (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 16500 Alyssum carcium T.R. Dudley & Huber-Morath (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 20000 Alyssum cassium Boiss. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 16300 Alyssum chondrogynum B.L. Blurtt (Brassica) Distrib. Cyprus Ni 13500 Alyssum cilicium Boiss. and Balansa (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 4900 Alyssum condensatum Boiss. And Hausskn. (Brassica) Distrib. Iraq, Syria Ni 18100 Alyssum constellatum Boiss. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 13500 Alyssum corsicum Duby (Brassica) Distrib. Corsica Ni 10400 Alyssum crenulatum Boiss. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 23600 Alyssum cypricum Nyar. (Brassica) Distrib. Cyprus Ni 19600 Alyssum davisianum T.R. Dudley (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 11700 Alyssum discolor T.R. Dudley & Huber-Morah (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 16500 Alyssum dubertretii gomb (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 4550 Alyssum euboeum Halacsy (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 11500 Alyssum eriophyllum Boiss. and Hausskn. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 3960 Alyssum fallacinum Boiss. and Balansa (Brassica) Distrib. Crete Ni 7700 Alyssum floribundum Boiss. and Balansa (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 7390 Alyssum giosnanum Nyar. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 12500 Alyssum heldreichii Hausskn. (Brassica) Distrib. Greece. Concentration of nickel in the seeds (1880 μg/g dry weight) is much lower than that in other plant parts.Brooks RR, Phytochemistry of hyperaccumulators. In: Brooks RR, ed. Plants that hyperaccumulate heavy metals. New York, 1998: CAB International, 15-53, cited in Nickel Localization in Seeds of the Metal Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi pindicum Hausskn., par G. K. Psaras and Y. Manetas. Annals of Botany 88: 513-516, 2001 Ni 13500 Alyssum huber-morathii T.R.Dudley (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 22400 Alyssum lesbiacum (P. candargi) Rech.f. (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 13700 Alyssum markgrafii O.E. Schulz (Brassica) Distrib. Albania Ni 24300 Alyssum masmenkaeum Boiss. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 7080 Alyssum murale Wealdstandkit (Brassica) Distrib. Balkans Ni 4590 Alyssum obovatum (C.A. Mey) Turez (Brassica) Distrib. Russia Ni 7290 Alyssum oxycarpum Boiss. And Balansa (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 7600 Alyssum peltarioides subsp. Virgatiforme Nyar. T.R. Dudley) (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 21100 Alyssum pinifolium (Nyar.) T.R. Dudley (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 22200 Alyssum pterocarpum T.R. Dudley (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 12500 Alyssum robertianum Bernard ex Godronand Gren (Brassica) Distrib. Corsica Ni 7860 Alyssum penjwinensis T.R. Dudley (Brassica) Distrib. Iraq Ni 18900 Alyssum samariferum Boiss. & Hausskn. (Brassica) Distrib. Samar Ni up to 10,000 (leaves) Alyssum serpyllifolium (Brassica) Distrib. Portugal Ni 1280 Alyssum singarense Boiss. And Hausskn. (Brassica) Distrib. Iraq Ni 10200 Alyssum syriacum Nyar. (Brassica) Distrib. Syria Ni 6600 Alyssum smolikanum Nyar. (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 3420 Alyssum tenium Halacsy (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 11900 Alyssum trapeziforme Nyar. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 17100 Alyssum trodii Boiss. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 6230 Alyssum virgatum Nyar. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni Azolla filiculoides Pacific mosquitofern Cu(A), Pb(A), Mn(A) Origin Africa; floating plant McCutcheon & Schnoor 2003, Phytoremediation. New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons pg 898 Ni 11400 Bornmuellaria sp. petri Greuter Charpion et Dittrich (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 21300 Bornmuellaria baldacii (Degen) Heywood (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 19200 Bornmuellaria glabrescens (Boiss. & Balansa) Cullen & T.R. Dudley (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 31200 Bornmuellaria tymphea (Hausskn.) Hausskn. (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni Brassicaeae Cd(H), Cs(H), Ni(H), Sr(H), Zn(H) Phytoextraction McCutcheon & Schnoor 2003, Phytoremediation. New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons pg 19 Ni Brassica juncea Indian mustard Cd(A), Cr(A), Cu(A), Pb(A), Pb(P), U(A), Zn(A) cultivated B. Muthukumar, B. Yakubov, DE Salt: Transcriptional activation and localization of expression of Brassica juncea putative metal transport protein BjMTP1 BMC Plant Biology 2007, 7:32 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-7-32 Ni H- Burkea africana Elevated levels of Ni in the embryonic axis in the seeds.E.T.F. Witkowski, I.M Weiersbye-Witkowski, W.J. Przybylowicz, J. Mesjasz-Przybylowicz: Nuclear microprobe studies of elemental distributions in dormant seeds of Burkea africana. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 1997, B130: 381-387 Ni 1050 Cardamine resedifolia L. (Brassica) Distrib. Italy Ni 540–1220 Cuscuta californica var. breviflora Engelm. (Cuscutaceae) A parasite of Streptanthus polygaloides as well as other species, it can accumulate Ni if the plant host contains some. See 'metal tolerance' in Phytoremediation article. R.S. Boyd and S.N. Martens. The significance of metal hyperaccumulation for biotic interactions. Chemoecology 8 (1998) pp.1–7 Ni Helianthus annuus Sunflower Phytoextraction & rhizofiltration Ni Hybanthus floribundus Shrub violet McCutcheon & Schnoor 2003, Phytoremediation. New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons pg 891Reeves 1992 Ni Ocimum centraliafricanum Copper plant Cu(T), Ni(T) Origin Southern Africa Ni 18900 Peltaria dumulosa Post (Brassica) Distrib. Asia Ni 34400 Peltaria emarginata (Boiss.) Hausskn. (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 3140 Pseudosempervirum sempervium Boiss. And Balansa) Pobed (Brassica) 372 plants noted; origin California (distrib. Turkey) Brooks et al. 1977 Ni 17600 Pseudosempervirum aucheri (Boiss.) Pobed (Brassica) 372 plants noted; origin California (distrib. Turkey) Ni 14,900 to 27,700, up to 32,000 R.S. Boyd, T. Jaffré and J. W. Odom. Variation in Nickel Content in the Nickel-Hyperaccumulating Shrub Psychotria douarrei (Rubiaceae) from New Caledonia. Biotropica, Volume 31 Page 403 - September 1999. Ni contents in leaves of P. douarrei vary considerably due to leaf age. Older leaves contain twice as much Ni as younger leaves, and leaf Ni content does not correlate significantly with neither plant size nor soil Ni content. Variations in accumulation differ greatly among branches within individuals as well as between individuals, but this intraplant variability was not strongly correlated with the mean leaf Ni content of an individual shrub. Epiphyll cover is increased on the upper surface of older leaves. The dominant leafy liverwort epiphyll contains 400ppm (relatively high), suggesting that epiphylls of Ni hyperaccumulators obtain some Ni from host leaves Psychotria douarrei Older leaves contain more Ca, Fe, and Cr than younger leaves, but less K, P, and Cu. Zn, Pb, Co, Mn, Mg show no significant variation due to leaf age. Origin New Caledonia; 372 records of plants. Ni contents in leaves of P. douarrei vary considerably due to leaf age. Ni 17500 Rinorea bengalensis Ni(H) Origin Asia Ni 18000 Rinorea niccolifera none Ni(H) Origin Philippines Ni H- Salvinia molesta Water Fern Cr(H), Ni(H), Pb(H), Zn(A) Origin India Ni H-up to 26% in xylem Pycnandra acuminata Origin Caledonia Ni H- Senecio coronatus Presence of nickel in the part of the fruit covering the radicle and in the radicle itself.Przybylowicz WJ, Pineda CA, Prozesky VM, Mesjasz-Przybylowicz J., Investigation of Ni hyperaccumulation by the true elemental imageing. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research 1995, B104: 176-181 Ni 1000 Shorea tenuiramulosa (Dipterocarpaceae) Philippine tree Proctor et al. . (1989) Ni Spirodela polyrhiza Giant Duckweed Cd(H), Cr(H), Pb(H), Zn(A) Native to North America Srivastav 1994 Ni 21,500 Stackhousia tryonii Bailey (Stackhousiaceae) Origin Central Queensland Batianoff et al. 1990. Ni 14800 Streptanthus polygaloides Gray (Brassica) Milkwort Jewelflower Ni-hyperaccumulation protects S. polygaloides against fungal and bacterial pathogens. Ni 2000 Thlaspi bulbosum Spruner ex Boiss. (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 16200 Thlaspi caerulescens Alpine pennycress Cd(H), Cr(A), Co(H), Cu(H), Mo(H), Pb(H), Zn(H) phytoextraction , Conseil National de Recherches du Canada, Influence of the zinc hyperaccumulator Thlaspi caerulescens J. & C. Presl. and the nonmetal accumulator Trifolium pratense L. on soil microbial populations, par T.A. Delorme, J.V. Gagliardi, J.S. Angle, et R.L. ChaneyBaker & Brooks, 1989 E. Lombi, F.J. Zhao, S.J. Dunham et S.P. McGrath, Phytoremediation of Heavy Metal, Contaminated Soils, Natural Hyperaccumulation versus Chemically Enhanced Phytoextraction.Phytoremediation Decision Tree, ITRC Ni 52120 Thlaspi cypricum Brnm. (Brassica) Distrib. Cyprus Ni 20800 Thlaspi elegans Boiss. (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 3000 Thlaspi epirotum Halacsy (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 12000 Thlaspi goesingense Halacsy (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 2440 Thlaspi japonicum H. Boissieu (Brassica) Distrib. Japan Ni 26900 Thlaspi jaubertii Hedge (Brassica) Distrib. Turkey Ni 13600 Thlaspi kovatsii Heuffel (Brassica) Distrib. Yugoslavia Ni 5530 Thlaspi montanum L. var. montanum (Brassica) Distrib. U.S.A. Ni-hyperaccumulation protects T. montanum against fungal and bacterial pathogens. Ni H- Thlaspi pindicum (Brassica) Sp. endemic to serpentine soils in Greece and Albania. Ni relatively abundant in some parts of the seed (mainly the micropyle). G. K. Psaras and Y. Manetas, Nickel Localization in Seeds of the Metal Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi pindicum Hausskn.. Annals of Botany 88: 513-516, 2001 Ni 4000 Thlaspi ochroleucum Boiss. and Heldr. (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 35600 Thlaspi oxyceras (Boiss.) Hedge (Brassica) distrib. Turkey, Syria Ni 18300 Thlaspi rotundifolium (L.) Gaudin var. corymbosum (Gay) (Brassica) Central Europe Ni 31000 Thlaspi sylvium (as T. alpinim subsp. Sylvium) (Brassica) Central Europe Ni 1800 Thlaspi tymphaneum Hausskn. (Brassica) Distrib. Greece Ni 7000 ( only 54 in fruits) Walsura monophylla Elm. (Meliaceae) Origin Philippines. Baker et al. (1992) A.J.M. Baker, J. Proctor, M.M.J. van Balgooy, R.D. Reeves. Hyperaccumulation of nickel by the flora of the ultramafics of Palawan, Republic of the Philippines. Pp 291–304 in Baker AJM, Proctor J, Reeves RD (eds) The Vegetation of Ultramafic (Serpentine) Soils. GB-Andover: Intercept (1992)
Notes In the genus Alyssum, free histamin (His) is an important Ni binding ligand that increases in the xylem proportionately to root Ni uptake. There is a close correlation between Ni tolerance, root His concentration, and ATP-PRT transcript abundance. Thus ATP-PRT expression may play a major role in regulating the pool of free His and contributes to the exceptional Ni tolerance of hyperaccumulator Alyssum species. But this is not the complete hyperaccumulator phenotype because His-(GM-)overproducing lines do not exhibit increased Ni concentrations in either xylem sap or shoot tissue. Robert A. Ingle, Sam T. Mugford, Jonathan D. Rees, Malcolm M. Campbell and J. Andrew C. Smith, Constitutively High Expression of the Histidine Biosynthetic Pathway Contributes to Nickel Tolerance in Hyperaccumulator Plants. The Plant Cell 2005, 17:2089-2106. Full text online.