Response: Commentary: Toward a more physiologically and evolutionarily relevant definition of metal hyperaccumulation in plants
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1 Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, Université de Lorraine INRA, UMR 1120, Nancy, France, 3 School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 4 Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 5 Department of Biology, Furman University, Greenville SC, USA, 6 Department of Genetics, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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