exploring the inner workings of plants
Posted in Phytoremediation on Jun 14th, 2010
Sadly, A Timely Topic You’ve likely heard about microbes with the ability to “eat” crude oil (a.k.a., petroleum). That is, some bacteria have the ability to metabolize most of the the organic compounds present in petroleum. (For excellent scientific coverage of the oil spill see “The Science of the Oil Spill”.) Interestingly, most of the [...]
Posted in Phytoremediation on Mar 1st, 2009
From this years TED conference comes news that plants can clean the air in a large office building in India….and increase people’s productivity! One of the plants used in this study is the so-called “Mother-in-Law’s Tongue” or Sansevieria trifasciata. (see photo on right.) This certainly is good news, although the idea that plants remove hydrocarbons, [...]
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