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Phytoremediation
The use of plants to detoxify soil or water. Phytoremediation may involve phytoextraction, the uptake of toxic chemicals by the roots of plants and their concentration in plant tissues, phytovolatilization, the chemical transformation of a toxic substance by a plant, usually by methylation, into a gaseous form, or phytofiltration, the use of crude plant extracts to selectively remove toxic materials from solutions.
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