hyperaccumulators

Using hyperaccumulators, or plants that naturally can extract and store heavy metals, they were able to gather scientific data on the viability of using plants to clean up polluted soil.

Revival Field, or: 7 “terrestrial activities of aliens,” Part III 2006

Using hyperaccumulators, or plants that naturally can extract and store heavy metals, they were able to gather scientific data on the viability of using plants to clean up polluted soil.

Archive 2006-01-01 2006

The molecule does, however, allow this group of plants, called metal hyperaccumulators, to store high levels of metal in their tissues, rendering them pathogen resistant.

Strange science 2005

In a remote, beautiful field, high in the Pindus mountains in Epirus, they are experimenting with a trio of shrubs known to scientists as “hyperaccumulators”: plants which have evolved the capacity to thrive in naturally metal-rich soils that are toxic to most other kinds of life.

If we can farm metal from plants, what else can we learn from life on Earth? | James Bridle James Bridle 2022