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Welcome
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Fort Collins,
Colorado
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| The lab outdoors | ||||||
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Can plants be used to clean up environmental pollutants? How do plants maintain metal homeostasis? Do plants and soil microbes interact to degrade organic pollutants? |
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Old Town,
Fort Collins
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| Much of our research relates to phytoremediation: using plants to remediate environmental pollution. We work from the molecular level to the whole plant level to the field. We try to identify which steps are rate-limiting for the phytoremediation of different pollutants and to use genetic engineering to improve phytoremediation efficiency. | ||||||
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Summer on the Front Range |
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For more information: Marinus Pilon: (970) 491 0803 pilon@lamar.colostate.edu Elizabeth Pilon-Smits: (970) 491 4991 epsmits@lamar.colostate.edu |
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1) Ecological and evolutionary aspects of selenium hyperaccumulation 2) Metal homeostasis in chloroplasts 3) Iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis in chloroplasts 4) Plant metabolism of selenium and other oxyanions |
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