🌸 This work sheds light on how plant species adapt to extreme metal-rich environments, and could inform future studies on phytoremediation or metal tolerance in plants. (7/7)
#PlantScience #Metallophytes #Phytoremediation #Viola #AoBpapers
🌿Check the newly published article ‘Surviving Allchar: arsenic and thallium tolerance and distribution in Viola metallophytes’ in @AnnBot by Ksenija Jakovljević and co-authors 🧵(1/7)
Camelina, a friendly li'l brassica is a superhero!
1. It cleans contaminated soils, slurping up nickel--which can then be harvested (phytomining!) for use
2. It improves the soil's fertility
3. Its oil can be used in biofuels.
"We believe that there is currently enough nickel in the barren soil in the U.S. to supply us for 50 years of phytomining,” says [phytoremediation prof] Dhankher.
Data for the paper Mattiello et al. (2023). The data are environmental variables (growing degree days and total solar radiation), soil variables (bulk density, pH, electrical conductivity, total equivalent carbonate concentration, gravel concentration, soil texture, soil total, and available element concentrations), and plant nutrients concentration in roots and leaves of five species (Lolium perenne, Plantago lanceolata, Rumex obtusifolius, Taraxacum officinale, and Trifolium repens) commonly found in the understory vegetation of Mediterranean vineyard (notes 1-10). Data are from nine organic vineyards, two conventional vineyards, and two control (not vineyards and uncontaminated) sites located in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy). The data in notes 11 and 12 are from a controlled experiment performed on plants grown from seeds collected at three sampled vineyards. These data were analyzed in the above-mentioned citation (if data needed to be transformed for achieving normality and homogeneity of variance, these transformations are shown in this database as well). For inquiries regarding the contents of this dataset, please contact the Corresponding Author listed in the README.txt file. Administrative inquiries (e.g., removal requests, trouble downloading, etc.) can be directed to [email protected]
1 site, 9 concrete responses to the Sustainable Development Goals.
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On my #BucketList I don't have riches and fame or a world cruise.
Instead I have:
* rewetting a #PeatLand
* planting a #TinyForest
* planting a bamboo forest where a toxic landfill used to be ( #PhytoRemediation )
I feel like I'm already rich, because I'm healthy, surrounded by still quite intact nature and currently have no existential crises.
I'm already famous, because I have a few friends and am hosting a great community on my Fediverse instances.
And I'm already on a world trip traveling by train to nearby demonstrations and activist camps every now and then, meeting all kinds of people.
Word of the Day: Phytoremediation
This refers to using plants to clean up contaminated environments (eg. oil spills).
I recently came across an interview with Dr Eucharia Nwaichi, a biochemist working with local communities in the Niger Delta region, planting lemongrass & rubber to clean toxins from contaminated soils.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dw6mln
#Phytoremediation #WomenInStem #WomenInScience #Nigeria #Sustainability #Environment #Nature #Plants #Science #Scientists #Pollution #WordOfTheDay
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