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Plants can clear arsenic pollution
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20021007-02
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Arsenic is an extremely toxic metalloid pollutant yet the decontamination of polluted sites can be environmentally destructive. An alternative is suggested in October 7 Nature Biotechnology; Om Parkash Dhankher and colleagues at the University of Georgia, Athens, US, show that genetically engineered plants can transport arsenic above ground, reduce it to arsenite, and sequester it in thiol–peptide complexes (Nature Biotechnology, DOI:10.1038/nbt747, October 7, 2002).
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