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industrial pollution
‘Probiotics’ for Plants Boost Detox Abilities; Untreated Plants Overdose and Die
Scientists using a microbe that occurs naturally in eastern cottonwood trees have boosted the ability of two other plants – willow and lawn grass – to withstand the withering effects of the nasty industrial pollutant phenanthrene and take up 25 to 40 percent more of the pollutant than untreated plants.
