Recent studies have focused on enhancing the effectiveness of phytoremediation through various strategies. One review highlights the mechanisms by which plants can detoxify heavy metals ...

A new spinout, RemePhy, aims to revolutionise the way we address soil contamination, one of the world's most critical environmental ...

Now Purdue University researchers are prodding them to take the cleanup a step further, to become phytoremediators -- plants that collect heavy metals and radioactive waste from polluted water and ...