What inspired you to use plants to treat heavy metal pollution? The Chinese government has been enforcing limits on levels of heavy metals in wastewater since the late 1990s. We soon realised that ...

Their findings indicate that under significant salt stress ... be used to study how plants defend themselves against additional dangers like microorganisms and heavy metal pollution.

"For about 40 years, we have known that the gaseous plant hormone ethylene, which is produced when plants are under stress, such as being flooded, inhibits the symbiosis between plants and fungi ...

The success of land plants is surprising because it is a challenging habitat. On land, rapid shifts in environmental conditions lead to stress, and plants have developed an elaborate molecular ...