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Removing heavy metals from soil with plants

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Phytoextraction, a simple and thrifty method of removing heavy metals from soil, is described. It involves planting and cultivating selected agricultural plants for a certain period at polluted sites to remove metals from the soil by the root system and to accumulate these metals in the aboveground biomass.

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  1. R. V. Galiulin
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  2. R. A. Galiulina
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Original Russian Text © R.V. Galiulin, R.A. Galiulina, 2008, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2008, Vol. 78, No. 3, pp. 247–249.

The authors work at the RAS Institute of Basic Problems of Biology. Rauf Valievich Galiulin, Dr. Sci. (Geogr.), is a leading researcher at the Laboratory of Functional Ecology. Roza Adkhamovna Galiulina is a researcher at the same laboratory.

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Galiulin, R.V., Galiulina, R.A. Removing heavy metals from soil with plants. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 78, 141–143 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331608020044

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