A Cd/Fe/Zn-Responsive Phytochelatin Synthase is Constitutively Present in the Ancient Liverwort Lunularia cruciata (L.) Dumort

Constitutively Present in the Ancient Liverwort Lunularia cruciata (L.) Dumort Francesca Degola, Maria De Benedictis, Alessandro Petraglia, Alberto Massimi, Laura Fattorini, Sergio Sorbo, Adriana Basile and Luigi Sanita di Toppi* Department of Life Sciences, University of Parma, I-43124 Parma, Italy ‘Berenini’ Institute, I-43036 Fidenza (PR), Italy Department of Environmental Biology, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, I-00185 Rome, Italy CeSMA, Microscopy Section, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, I-80139 Naples, Italy Department of Biology, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, I-80137 Naples, Italy Contributed equally to this work and should be considered co-first authors. *Corresponding author: E-mail, luigi.sanita@unipr.it. (Received May 21, 2014; Accepted August 20, 2014)