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 offer health benefits like enhanced satiety (fullness), weight control ...

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 ...

The Nineteenth Session of the Commission on Phytosanitary Measures (CPM-19) will take place at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' (FAO) Headquarters in Rome from 17 to 21 ...