Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal From Plants
Hyper-accumulating plants thrive in metallic soil that kills other vegetation, and botanists are testing the potential of phytomining. Some of Earth's plants have fallen in love with metal. With roots that act practically like magnets, these organisms - about 700 are known - flourish in metal-rich soils that make hundreds of thousands of other plant species flee or die.
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