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COPPER TOLERANCE IN TWO LEGUME SPECIES FROM A COPPER MINE HABITAT
Author(s) -
WU LIN,
KRUCKEBERG A. L.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
new phytologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.742
H-Index - 244
eISSN - 1469-8137
pISSN - 0028-646X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8137.1985.tb03684.x
Subject(s) - copper , nitrogen fixation , legume , soil water , agronomy , nutrient , copper mine , habitat , nitrogenase , biology , nitrogen , botany , ecology , chemistry , organic chemistry
S ummaryLupinus bicolor Lindl. and Lotus purshianus (Benth.) Clem. & Clem, plants growing on copper mine waste in northern California exhibited considerably greater copper tolerance at 0.2 mg copper 1 −1 in nutrient solution than plants from an adjacent meadow. Effective nitrogen fixation in the copper‐enriched soils is suggested from acetylene reduction assays.