Supported by the 100 Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;the Key Technology R&D Program of Shandong Province(No.2012GGA06032)
The halophyte Suaeda salsa can grow in heavy metal-polluted areas along intertidal zones having high salinity.Since phytochelatins can effectively chelate heavy metals,it was hypothesized that S.salsa possessed a phyt...