Plants and Pb

[Joel Kroin]

In <42cvci$jlm at news1.ucsd.edu> "Gordon A. Fox" <gfox at ucsd.edu> writes: 
>
>cmayor at ix.netcom.com wrote:
>>	I recently saw a journal or magazine or something that had a
story on
>>the use of plants to absorb heavy metals from soil.
>
>The article was a newsy article in the front portion of Science a
couple 
>of weeks ago, reporting on a meeting on this topic.
>
>
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Many years ago some researchers found some plants which have an
affinity to absorb gold from soil over gold mine trailings. The process
was not economically feasible. I doubt if further work was done.

Regards
Hortus