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GeoMerce: Turning Plants into Miners
Published on Jun 12, 20172939 Views
Certain plants, known as hyper-accumulators, are particularly good at absorbing heavy metals such as zinc, copper and nickel from the soil, and accumulating these metals in their leaves. The accumulat
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Insights in metal accumulation and tolerance in plants00:00
Outline03:06
Metal polluted sites - 103:43
Metal polluted sites - 205:35
Hyperaccumulation08:32
Metallophyte flora10:33
Plants on serpentine soils - 112:04
Plants on serpentine soils - 212:51
Nickel plants - 113:45
Nickel plants - 214:59
Pb and Zn mineralization - 116:30
Pb and Zn mineralization - 216:52
Pb and Zn mineralization - 317:32
Pb and Zn mineralization - 419:35
Physiology of metal tolerance and hyperaccumulation20:33
Roots – the sites of metal uptake and transport20:42
Excluder plants – retention of metals in roots21:25
Mycorrhiza23:53
Root uptake27:04
Leaves – the sites of metal storage in HA plants29:05
Hiperaccumulator plants – storage of metal in leaves29:56
Localization of metals in leaves30:33
Ecological role - 131:18
Ecological role - 231:52
Biotechnological use of metal hyperacumulating plants32:56
Phytomining plant in SA, Mpumalanga region33:09
Nickel - 235:51
Nickel - 136:31
Phytomining36:51
Acknowledgements37:58
Geomerce: Vegetal Life, Performance and GeoSpeculations38:57
It is not a recent interest ...40:01
How plants can be explored as interconnected entities?40:30
Biology and "geo-speculation"41:32
Pollution42:36
Hyperaccumulators43:22
A way for plants to protect themselves 44:03
The installation - 145:02
The installation - 245:55
The installation - 346:14
The installation - 447:00
The installation - 547:37
The installation - 650:49
From contamintation to value - 151:49
From contamintation to value - 252:07
From contamintation to value - 352:49
From contamintation to value - 453:11
From contamintation to value - 553:57
From contamintation to value - 654:33
From contamintation to value - 754:35
From contamintation to value - 855:08
From contamintation to value - 956:12
Thank you58:19