She and her agronomy professor husband, Paul Schwab, were one of the first research teams to develop methods for field-testing phytoremediation, the use of plants to clean up contaminated soil. Banks ...

Nickel contamination can render soils infertile at levels that are currently impractical to treat. Researchers at UMass Amherst are looking at how plants can help these soils and source nickel for ...

Specific plant species could be used as cover plants for phytoremediation, i.e. to relieve agricultural land from adverse pollutant impacts. In their article published in Trends in Plant Sciences ...

Richard Meagher Meagher is working in a field called phytoremediation wherein he uses plants to clean up environmental messes. According to Meagher, "we're using all that machinery, that ...

The main goal of this research was to assess the effectiveness of Grey Mangroves, which are native plants around the Gulf of Mexico, in removal of salinity from water - Undergraduate faculty-mentored ...

But agriculture could also benefit from this method, says Marie Muehe: "The use of selected cover plants for phytoremediation is a natural, climate-neutral way to improve and maintain soil health.