Sunday, 18 October 2015

Could contaminated land actually be good for trees

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Could contaminated land actually be good for trees
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 16, 2015 - The very act of tolerating some forms of soil pollution may give trees an advantage in the natural world, says University of Montreal plant biologists. Their findings were published this week in BMC Plant Biology. High chemical tolerant plants can be used to rehabilitate land contaminated with heavy metals or petroleum by-products - some 30,000 such sites exist in Canada and 342,000 sites ... more


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