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ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 166, Issue -, Pages 208-211Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.03.018
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Air pollution; Biomonitoring; Heavy metals; Thylakoids; Tolerance
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This paper tested if culturing the moss Scorpiurum circinatum (Brid.) Fleisch. & Loeske with metal solutions (Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn) for 30 days causes metal bioaccumulation and ultrastructural changes. The results showed that despite the high heavy metal concentrations in treatment solutions, treated samples did not show severe ultrastructural changes and cells were still alive and generally well preserved. Bioaccumulation highlighted that moss cells survived to heavy metal toxicity by immobilizing most toxic ions extracellularly, likely in binding sites of the cell wall, which is the main site of metal detoxification. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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