Probiotics Help Poplar Trees Clean Up Toxins in Superfund Sites

Monday, August 14, 2017 - 16:13 in Biology & Nature

Biologists conducted the first large-scale experiment on a Superfund site using poplar trees fortified with a probiotic -- or natural microbe -- to clean up groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene, or TCE.

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