It is for this reason that we became interested in enhancing phytoremediation using transgenic technologies." Modified poplars and contaminants Doty, bioremediation researcher Stuart Strand and ...

Poplars have a lot of P450s and Doty said ... a pollutant associated with petroleum. Work on phytoremediation at the UW has been funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ...

The company even sells kits—250 poplar seedlings for $240. Phytoremediation has its share of drawbacks. For one thing, it's slow. "Often sites need to be cleaned faster than plants can grow ...

"Phytoremediation is basically a solar-powered ... have created genetically engineered poplar trees in the laboratory that can remove as much as 91 percent of trichloroethylene—the most common ...

phytoremediation can be a cost-effective and sustainable technology, Nichols says. The Coast Guard site was planted with a mixture of fast-growing trees such as hybrid poplars and willows to ...

"Using phytoremediation, we can treat the soil at the spot where ... At Bedford, the Purdue researchers have planted grasses and poplar trees on one part of the site to hasten the degradation of the ...

The poplars are part of a wave of advances in phytoremediation, the process of using plants to clean up toxic soil or water. They arise from work by Sharon Doty, a plant microbiologist at the ...

We call that phytoremediation. But the poplar varieties they've created are excellent for that too. So in terms of climate change, Cathy, so everybody in-- our listeners are very familiar with the ...

Possible mechanisms and technological process of micro/nanoplastics phytoremediation. The plastics absorbed and intercepted by plants can be recycled through different processes for incineration ...

A hybrid poplar is a tree resulting from the combining, either naturally or artificially, of various poplar species into a hybrid. Hybrid poplars (Populus spp.) are among the fastest-growing trees ...

Nickel contamination can render soils infertile at levels that are currently impractical to treat. Researchers at UMass Amherst are looking at how plants can help these soils and source nickel for ...