Transgenic plants for phytoremediation: helping nature to clean up environmental pollution

PHYTOREMEDIATION

David E. Salt, Richard Smith, Ilya Raskin · Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology · 1998 · 2K citations

Environmental Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental Engineering +15

Mercuric ion reduction and resistance in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants expressing a modified bacterial merA gene.

Clayton L. Rugh, H. Dayton Wilde, N M Stack et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1996 · 423 citations · Full text

Engineering, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +19

Enhanced metabolism of halogenated hydrocarbons in transgenic plants containing mammalian cytochrome P450 2E1

Sharon Doty, Tanya Q. Shang, Angela Wilson et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2000 · 270 citations · Full text

Engineering, Enhanced Metabolism, United States +21

Heavy metal tolerant transgenic Brassica napus L. and Nicotiana tabacum L. plants

Santosh Misra, Lashitew Gedamu · Theoretical and Applied Genetics · 1989 · 265 citations

Biology, Engineering, Botany +6

Biodegradation of explosives by transgenic plants expressing pentaerythritol tetranitrate reductase

Christopher E. French, Susan J. Rosser, Gareth Davies et al. · Nature Biotechnology · 1999 · 261 citations

Transgenic Plants, Engineering, Biotransformation +7