Wired News: Attack of the Metal-Eating Plants
Wired News: Attack of the Metal-Eating Plants: “Genetically modified plants may be the green solution for cleaning up contaminated soils.
The results of a successful field trial in California last year were published last week in the online arm of Environmental Science & Technology. They showed that genetic engineering boosted a plant’s ability to absorb selenium, a toxic heavy metal, by 430 percent.”