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The phytoremediation of trinitrotoluene (TNT), nitroglycerine (NG) and pentaerytritoltetranitrate (PETN) using in vitrocultures of Rheum palmatum, Saponaria officinalisand Populus simonii were studied. All above mentioned explosives were degradated to less toxic products and finally probably bound to the cell wall or further involved in the metabolism. The formation of trinitrobenzene (TNB) during degradation of TNT which is a product of alternative degradation pathway was found too.
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Vaněk, T., Nepovím, A., Podlipná, R. et al. Phytoremediation of Selected Explosives. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution: Focus 3, 259–267 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023981818382
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