Metals/metalloids phytoremediation

McGrath SP, Zhao FJ, Lombi E. (2002). Phytoremediation of metals, metalloids, and radionuclides. Advances in Agronomy 75 1-56. 

An alternative remediation strategy is to exploit higher plants that are capable of taking up exceptional amounts of metals and metalloids from the soil solution and confine it in the aboveground plant tissues. These plants have been termed as hyperaccumulators and their unique property is exploited in the in situ remediation technology of phytoremediation, which is ecologically safe, cost effective, and easy... 

Alkorta, L, Hernandez-Allica, J., Becerril, J.M., Amezaga, L, Albizu, L, and Garbisu, C. 2004. Recent findings on the phytoremediation of soils contaminated with environmentally toxic heavy metals and metalloids such as zinc, cadmium, lead, and arsenic. Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology, 3 71-90. 

Is this plant a good candidate for phytoremediation of heavy metals and or metalloids ... 

Mercury and arsenic are extremely toxic heavy metal and metalloid pollutants that adversely affect file health of millions of people worldwide (/). These toxic pollutants have reached unacceptably high levels in file environment due to industrial, def e, agricultural, and municipal properties. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and other government and industrial sites in the United States are heavily contaminated with mercury, arsenic, and other toxic metals such as cadmium, copper, lead, and zinc. Each of these elemental pollutants has common environmentally relevant electrochemical species that are thiol-reactive and thus relevant to the phytoremediation strategies oufiined in Figure 1. Hundreds of Superfimd sites in the United States are listed on file... 

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