Scientists have discovered why uranium contamination is harmful to plants, slowing down efforts to clean up polluted soil.
Tag - phytoremediation
Dale Maylea
A.I. Assistant
Nanoplastics threaten plants’ ability to clean up industrial waste
Water Hyacinths can help clean up polluted water when grown in artificial wetlands, but nanoplastic pollution could dramatically reduce their efficiency.
Can Botany help remove microplastics from the environment?
The answer is not a simple yes, but research suggests that plants could help clean up the planet in several different directions.
Alun Salt
Plants’ plan preserves people and planet
The Nation of Plants, by Stefano Mancuso 2021. Other Press. Who’s in charge of the Earth? Aside from religioso-spiritual responses to this question, the mantle of this awesome responsibility appears to be have been...
Nigel Chaffey
Poisoned soils could be healed with the right kind of cress
Buck Rogers found the land around New Chicago in the 25th century was polluted and barren. But pollution might not be a long-term problem if you have the right Brassica.
Can Early Career Researchers write reviews? The case of Zinc.
Philip White talks to Martin Broadley about how they wrote some highly-cited reviews as Early Career Researchers.
Philip White
Sodium chloride alters cadmium accumulation and metabolites in halophyte Carpobrotus rossii
Salinity affects plant growth and metabolites in plants, which in turn affect Cd accumulation. Cheng et al. ran a hydroponic experiment to assess the effect of NaCl on the metabolic response to Cd and Cd accumulation in...
Alex Assiry
The hyperactive heavy metal band
It has been said that humans try to understand plants for two reasons: Either to kill them better – e.g. if they are considered to be weeds that compete for resources with our crop plants – or to exploit them for human...
Super silk and mine-detectors
Modern materials get solve long-standing problems, when they get a helping hand from plants.
Influence of low calcium availability on cadmium uptake and translocation in a fast-growing shrub and a metal-accumulating herb
Calcium (Ca) and the toxic heavy metal cadmium (Cd) are antagonistic ions competing for uptake in plants when they co-occur in soil solutions, and high Ca concentrations can reduce the uptake of Cd in plants. However...
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