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Pumping out the arsenic

Nature Biotechnology volume 20, pages 1094–1095 (2002)Cite this article

Arabidopsis thaliana has been engineered to contain two bacterial enzymes to help it remove arsenic from contaminated soils.

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Figure 1: Uptake, transport, and metabolism in transgenic A. thaliana plants overexpressing two bacterial genes, arsC and γ-ECS.

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