In the complex realm of scientific enquiry, word selection is essential for communicating the importance and precision of results. In scientific reporting, the terms "discovery" and "observed" are ...

And one plant, in particular, the Odontarrhena (formerly Alyssum murale) “hyperaccumulates” nickel. Only one company, the press release states, is mining nickel conventionally in the US.

Another startup, Viridian, has also patented technology for its plants that it claims hyperaccumulates nickel from the soil. Plant species such as Odontarrhena decipiens, which has distinct yellow ...

Demand for nickel is growing alongside electric vehicles and startups are using plants to concentrate this metal from the ground.

Accumulation of cadmium (Cd) ions in soil is an increasingly acute ecological problem in agriculture production. Selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) can mediate Cd tolerance in plants; however, the ...

Department of Agroenvironmental Chemistry and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agrobiology, Food, and Natural Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Excess potentially ...

The essential biological role of rare earth elements lay hidden until the discovery in 2011 that lanthanides are specifically incorporated into a bacterial methanol dehydrogenase. Only recently has ...

These include: Neptunia amplexicaulis, a legume that hyperaccumulates selenium Gossia fragrantissima, which hyperaccumulates manganese and cobalt Crotalaria novae-hollandiae, which ...

Pinaki Bose Department of Environmental Science, Sewnarayan Rameswar Fatepuria College Beldanga, Murshidabad-742133, West Bengal, India Author's E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Murshidabad ...