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 ...

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 ...

The role of sunflowers in phytoremediation has been explored extensively since the 1990s. One notable study demonstrated the ...