New Discovered Plant Eat Metal

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The new discovered plant is called Rinorea Niccolifera. This plant was discovered here in the Phillipines in the province of Zambales.The discovery was conducted by the scientist of UP LOS BANOS. According to them this kind of plant species has the capability to absorb large amount of metal. The said plant in Province of Zambales it also known as the”hyperaccumulator” plant .This Plant has only have a total 450 species. The lead researcher and author of this study is Professor Edwin Fernando according to him the leaves of this plant can also absorb 18,000 parts per Million of nickel In fact this plant can absorb metal 1000 times .

The benefits of this plant is can absorb and removed heavy metal from the contaminated soils this process is called Phytoremediation. The other benefits of this plant is phytomining thru this process you can grow and harvest this this plant The main objective of phytoming is to recover valuable metals in plant shoots from metal-rich sites.This Kind of Hyperaccumulator Plant Has a great potential for the development of green technology

It means that the newly discovered Hyperaccumulator plant species has the capability and help clean polluted or contaminated soil or mine soil rich in metal and it also gives a way for mining of metals.



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