| survival strategies of plants associated with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi on toxic mine tailings. | a field survey of metal concentrations and arbuscular mycorrhizal (am) components of plants growing on five mining sites was conducted in chenzhou city, hunan province, southern china and a control site in hong kong. significant differences were observed in the average concentrations of total heavy metals (pb, zn, cu, cd) and one metalloid (as) in contaminated soils compared with the control site. gramineae and compositae were the dominant plant families growing on mine tailings, with chrysanthe ... | 2007 | 16872660 |