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Can Plants Be Used To Clean Up Soils Contaminated By Crude Oil?

plantguy June 14, 2010 June 14, 2010Phytoremediation 6

Sadly, A Timely Topic You’ve likely heard about microbes with the ability to “eat” crude oil (a.k.a., petroleum). That is, some bacteria have the ability to metabolize most of the the organic compounds present in petroleum. (For excellent scientific coverage of the oil spill see “The Science of the Oil…

Why Herbicides Kill Plants (But Not You) – Part 2: Roundup®

plantguy May 9, 2009 March 16, 2017Plant Metabolism 0

Roundup® Kills All Plants (Mostly) The herbicide that most Americans are likely familiar with is Roundup®. Unlike the auxin-based herbicides I discussed in the previous post, Roundup® is not a selective herbicide. That is, it usually kills all green plants (except if the plant is Roundup Ready® or if the…

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Can Plants Be Used To Clean Up Soils Contaminated By Crude Oil?

Why Herbicides Kill Plants (But Not You) – Part 2: Roundup®

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