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Phytoremediation: novel approaches to cleaning up polluted soils.
Current opinion in biotechnology - 1 Apr 2005
Krämer Ute
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Environmental pollution with metals and xenobiotics is a global problem, and the development of phytoremediation technologies for the plant-based clean-up of contaminated soils is therefore of significant interest. Phytoremediation technologies are currently available for only a small subset of pollution problems, such as arsenic. Arsenic removal employs naturally selected hyperaccumulator ferns, which accumulate...
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