Now Purdue University researchers are prodding them to take the cleanup a step further, to become phytoremediators -- plants that collect heavy metals and radioactive waste from polluted water and ...

Avocados are a good source of MUFAs, dietary fiber, and several phyto (plant) nutrients. The fatty fruit has been shown to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A husband and wife research team at Purdue University has pioneered the use of plants to help clean up soil contaminated with petroleum products. The Environmental Protection ...