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Hyperaccumulation of heavy metals is the uptake of heavy metals by plants passed a certain threshold of normal uptake. There are 6 main hypotheses for this phenomena, but the most researched one is the defense-hypothesis which states that the hyperaccumulation helps plants to protect themselves from herbivore/pathogen damage.

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