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Wired News: Attack of the Metal-Eating Plants

February 14th, 2005 at 12:29 am By johnsee (Tech & Science)

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.”

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