Putting Phytoremediation into Action Researchers studying the use of bacteria and plants to remove toxins from the soil must better communicate their results if they want their techniques to be used ...

We set out to uncover how to better make use of tropical plants to do phytoremediation and through advanced characterisation techniques, we showed how some of these tropical plant species can be ...

providing an environmentally friendly and cost-effective alternative to traditional techniques. As plastics continue to inundate ecosystems worldwide, advancing phytoremediation could ...

Yes, says a research team. Specific plant species could be used as cover plants for phytoremediation, i.e. to relief agricultural land from adverse pollutant impacts. In their article, the ...

Calculations conducted by the institute, using phytoremediation techniques (the use of plants to extract harmful substances), indicate that natural recovery may take over three centuries.

domingensis to optimize its potential for phytoremediation. “We’re applying several techniques on the basis of what we know about the best time for planting and the number of harvests per year ...

Courtesy of Upland Grassroots Assuming phytoremediation of PFAS breaks out of its experimental phase, it should shine in cost comparisons to other removal techniques, according to David Huff ...

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 ...

The term “phytoremediation,” was coined by the scientist Ilya Raskin, a member of a team that tested hemp’s ability to accumulate heavy metals from soil in contaminated fields near Chernobyl ...