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A team of scientists from Britain’s University of York began the study by growing a number of arabidopsis plants (a type of weed) in soil laced with TNT. Observing plants’ progress in the contaminated soil, the researchers noticed that one plant seemed to thrive. They further discovered that plant was lacking the MDHAR6 gene. The […]
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X-plant: ‘Mutant’ digests TNT & could be key to contaminated land clean-up, study finds
September 4th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Posted in World News 
Tags: arabidopsis plants, contaminated land, contaminated soil, plant biologist, TNT, University of York 
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September 3rd, 2015 Awake Goy MDHAR6 plants display enhanced TNT tolerance compared to wild type plants. Credit: Liz Rylott Biologists at the University of York have taken an important step in making it possible to clean millions of hectares of land contaminated by explosives. A team from the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products (CNAP) in the University’s Department of Biology […]
