On the possible role of macrofungi in the biogeochemical fate of uranium in polluted forest soils

Arsenic hyperaccumulation and speciation in the edible ink stain bolete (Cyanoboletus pulverulentus)

“…Furthermore, arsenic was not significantly correlated with total arsenic in soils or the percentage of bioavailable arsenic. Our data thus do not indicate a major role of total arsenic soil content and fractionation in fungal accumulation, which is a phenomenon recently observed by Kubrová et al (2014), who investigated accumulation of metals in macrofungi by using the BCR soil metal sequential extraction procedure.…”

Biogeochemistry of uranium in the soil-plant and water-plant systems in an old uranium mine

“…The biogeochemical fate of uranium in polluted sites has been studied considering several aspects, such as the effect of microbial activity (e.g., Beazley et al, 2011;Hu et al, 2016), the plant-soil interaction (e.g., Tandy et al, 2013), the speciation, retention, mobility and bioavailability phenomena (e.g., Crawford and Liber, 2015;Du et al, 2016;Leermakers et al, 2016), the distribution in plants at the cellular level (e.g., Nie et al, 2015), the toxicity and biochemical responses in plants (e.g., Alves et al, 2009;Hogan et al, 2010;Horemans et al, 2016;Srivastava et al, 2010), the distribution in environmental compartments (e.g., Baumann et al, 2014;Kubrová et al, 2014;Pereira and Neves, 2012;Roivainen et al, 2011), the toxicity risk to biota, including humans (Caetano et al, 2014;Lottermoser, 2011;Pereira et al, 2014;Sheppard et al, 2005), and the prospects for U accumulation potential plant (e.g., Jha et al, 2016;Li et al, 2011;Pratas et al, 2014;Ramaswami et al, 2001).…”

Resurrection of Cortinarius coalescens: taxonomy, chemistry, and ecology

“…The biological importance of the accumulation process itself is unknown and element accumulation is often characteristic for particular fungal species or genera (Falandysz and Borovička 2013). Moreover, macrofungi are able to discriminate between the homologs arsenic and antimony (Borovička et al 2006), and preferred metals are selectively accumulated regardless of their bioavailability in the underlying soil (Kubrová et al 2014). In the case of arsenic, some macrofungi can take up even more than 1000 mg As kg −1 (Falandysz and Rizal 2016).…”