Soil contamination has become a key ecological issue, threatening the wellbeing of the environment and humans health.\u00a0Dr. Michal Gruntman, a TAU researcher, is working on the use of plants to clean up polluted soils, while also targeting plants that have a negative impact on the environment. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>As a senior lecturer at the Porter School’s Department of Environmental Studies and the School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Dr. Gruntman recognizes soil as a finite, irreplaceable resource neglected at our peril. She\u00a0is studying the unique ability of certain plant species to accumulate high concentrations of heavy metals in their above-ground tissues, and the way these plants can be used for the cleanup of heavy-metal contaminated soil. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Her research focuses on the application of a natural plant hormone as a way to enhance metal uptake in sunflowers, which can have major implications on the optimization of natural clean-up practices of certain plants. At the same time, Michal has become an expert on the ecology of invasive plants, which contribute to biodiversity losses. <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Researchers like Dr. Gruntman are central to\u00a0 what TAU is all about. Soil contamination has become a key ecological issue, threatening the wellbeing of the environment and humans health. Dr. Michal Gruntman, a TAU researcher, is working on the use of plants to clean up polluted soils, while also targeting plants that have a negative impact on the environment.<\/p>\n As a senior lecturer at the Porter School\u2019s Department of Environmental Studies and the School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Dr. Gruntman recognizes soil as a finite, irreplaceable resource neglected at our peril. She is studying the unique ability of certain plant species to accumulate high concentrations of heavy metals in their above-ground tissues, and the way these plants can be used for the cleanup of heavy-metal contaminated soil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[8],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604,"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourearth.cftau.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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