Specific plant species could be used as cover plants for phytoremediation, i.e. to relieve agricultural land from adverse pollutant impacts. In their article published in Trends in Plant Sciences ...

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 ...

She and her agronomy professor husband, Paul Schwab, were one of the first research teams to develop methods for field-testing phytoremediation, the use of plants to clean up contaminated soil. Banks ...

Researchers at UMass Amherst are looking at how plants can help these soils and source nickel for the growing EV market. Despite being able to be up to 3% Ni by weight, Odontarrhena was ruled out ...

Taking it off-site to clean can cost three times as much. Tending the plants doing phytoremediation comes to about a nickel a cubic meter. The financial incentive can also lead to environmental ...

Richard Meagher Meagher is working in a field called phytoremediation wherein he uses plants to clean up environmental messes. According to Meagher, "we're using all that machinery, that ...

Trees then store pollutants from the stormwater, such as metals or pesticides, in their wood through a process called phytoremediation. That’s what makes trees “little environmental cleaning ...

The main goal of this research was to assess the effectiveness of Grey Mangroves, which are native plants around the Gulf of Mexico, in removal of salinity from water - Undergraduate faculty-mentored ...

But agriculture could also benefit from this method, says Marie Muehe: "The use of selected cover plants for phytoremediation is a natural, climate-neutral way to improve and maintain soil health.