Posts Tagged ‘arabidopsis plants’

X-plant: ‘Mutant’ digests TNT & could be key to contaminated land clean-up, study finds

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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