Arabidopsis halleri
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| Arabidopsis halleri | |
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| Illustration from Atlas der Alpenflora (1882) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Arabidopsis |
| Species: | A. halleri |
| Binomial name | |
| Arabidopsis halleri (L.) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz | |
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Arabidopsis halleri is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is a perennial native to Central Europe from Germany and Italy to Ukraine, and to Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and the Russian Far East.[1]
Arabidopsis halleri is a well-known for being able to hyperaccumulate zinc without suffering from phytotoxicity. Research has shown that this same pathway can be used to hyperaccumulate cadium, but the plant does not successfully detoxify the metal.[2]