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"The effluent takes five days to wind from one end of the greenhouse to
the other. When it reaches the far end, it is filtered by the artificial
marsh - a gravel bed out of which grows a carefully selected thicket of
water-loving plants. The marsh plants are chosen because they have
commercial value (watercress) or pretty blooms (marsh marigold) or known
ability to take up toxic substances (cattails, bulrushes). Organic toxins
are broken down. Heavy metals accumulate in the plants and in any compost
made from the plants. That's a problem, but heavy metals are a problem in
every kind of wastewater treatment plant."
"I learned about these plants from Kathe Seidel at the Max Planck
Institute in West Germany. She's tested 260 plants for purifying ability.
She found that some would take up heavy metals and organic solvents and
even some, like that aquatic iris over there, that exude substances from
their roots that kill pathogenic bacteria. Hardly anyone pays attention to
her work. But she gave me the confidence that we could duplicate nature's
way of making high-quality water."
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Lawrence
london@sunsite.unc.edu
Article 735 (8 more) in bionet.plants:
From: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
Subject: Re: A big hello
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:25:37 GMT
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Welcome to the group, David.
I'm glad that people are beginning to participate actively on the
bionet.plants group. As plant biologists we have a lot to learn from
the molecular biologists experience of using the network, but we are
getting there gradually.
The essence of Usenet, for me, is the informal contact we make with
each other by posting to a group such as this. I began the discussions
on bionet.plants by asking people to introduce themselves and describe
their area of interest.
So, tell us something about your interest in heavy metals and taxonomy?
Ok, what am I interested in . My main interest is in how plants are able
to tolerate elevated levels of heavy metals and specifically what is the
mechanism of metals tolerance in evolved metal tolerant races. I have
looked at the formation of copper-phytochelatin (gamma(EC)nG) and
metallothionein (the protein I isolated had an amino acid composition very
similar to that predicted for the plant metallothionein gene) in copper
tolerant Mimulus guttatus inresponse to 10 micro molar Cu and the synthesis
of just phytochelatins in response to Cd. Recently I have been looking at the
mechanism involved in Cd and phytochelatin transport into the vacuole where
they appear to accumulate. I have identified a Cd/H antiport activity at the
tonoplast and am now investigateing the mechanisms of phytochelatin transport.
Well in a nut shell that is what I do.
David Salt
Botany Dept.
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada (Botsalt@vm.uoguelph.ca)
Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:29:28 -0700
"Tony C. Tweedale" <es__act@SELWAY.UMT.EDU>
Re: cleaning products
To: Multiple recipients of list BIOSPH-L <BIOSPH-L@UBVM.cc.buffalo.edu>
On Thu, 17 Dec 1992, Rumen with a View wrote:
> C. Hanlon has requested info on cleaning compounds. Perhaps someone out there
> can enlighten me as well. There seems to be a common perception "out there"
> that commercial detergents are less environmentally friendly than old
fashioned
> cleaners that grandma used, like borax.
>
> Most commercial soaps are primarily sodium lauryl sulfate or
> similar fatty acid salts. Since medium chain fatty acids are easily
metabolized
> by microbes, the primary ingredients don't strike me as being particularly
> threatening.
>
> Borax, on the other hand, is a reasonably toxic element for mammals.
> Acceptable maximum tolerable levels for domestic animals:
>
> boron 150 ppm
> selenium 2 ppm
> mercury 2-3 ppm
> strontium 2,000 ppm
> chromium 1,000 ppm
> cadmium 0.5 ppm
> manganese 400 ppm (swine)
> uranium 400 ppm (rats)
>
> These numbers are subject to other mineral interactions and species variation.
> However, I don't know of anyone who would suggest washing clothes in uranium
> salts even if it were an effective cleaner.
>
> Lyle Rode
> Nutritionist
> Agriculture Canada
a reply:
synthetic detergents were at one time composed largely of branched long
chain "fatty acids". bugs could not eat their way around the side chains
and so the detergents did not degrade (does that cause a nutrients
problem--i guess not, that's due to inputs of phosphor in the cleaning
agents?).
and what about these new citrus oil solvents that are meant to be super
effective, ie can be used to replace industrial strength solvents eg
methylene chloride, cfc's, toluene, etc. (down w. chlorine!). i understand
they are terpene molecular units that do the cleaning (ie are the reactive
molecule in the formulation). take it they are similar to old fashioned
turpentine. degradable? toxicity (chronic, acute)?
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Hello, I am an undergraduate student in ecology at Idaho State
University in Pocatello, and I am studying lichens and air pollution
around nearby fertilizer industries. I am writing for assistance from
an ecologist who is working with lichens as biomonitors of air
pollution. I have been searching for literature that addresses the
interaction amongst heavy metal accumulations and other elements that
occur naturally in the lichen tissue such as K,Ca, and P. I have
found two books on the subject titled "Lichens and Air Pollution" and
"Physiological Ecology of Lichens". Yet, these were written in the
70's and 80's, and they do not completely describe what I am
searching for. I have checked in the last decades' issues of" The
Bryologist", and most studies are done to report elements found, but
not to draw conclusions concerning interactions of elements detected.
I would appreciate being directed to a researcher who is doing this
kind of work, or a publication that addresses element interactions
with heavy metals. My internet address is dillkare@lcs.isu.edu
Thank you for your time. Karen Dillman
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> I have
> found two books on the subject titled "Lichens and Air Pollution" and
> "Physiological Ecology of Lichens". Yet, these were written in the
> 70's and 80's, and they do not completely describe what I am
> searching for. I have checked in the last decades' issues of" The
> Bryologist", and most studies are done to report elements found, but
> not to draw conclusions concerning interactions of elements detected.
> I would appreciate being directed to a researcher who is doing this
> kind of work, or a publication that addresses element interactions
> with heavy metals.
Tom (T.C.) Hutchinson and his students at the University of Toronto
have been doing a lot of work recently on heavy metal uptake by
lichens. I know he has published at least some of these articles in
the New Phytologist. Check out the Science Citation Index or
Biological Abstracts--your librarian can show you how to use them.
Good luck!
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Subject: lichens and heavy metals From: UG DILLMAN KAREN L,
DILLKARE@lcs.isu.edu Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 09:13:00 EST In article
<8403FC109B@LCS.ISU.EDU> UG DILLMAN KAREN L, DILLKARE@lcs.isu.edu writes:
>Hello, I am an undergraduate student in ecology at Idaho State
>University
in Pocatello, and I am studying lichens and air pollution >around nearby
fertilizer industries. I am writing for assistance from >an ecologist who
is working with lichens as biomonitors of air >pollution. I have been
searching for literature that addresses the stuff deleted
Hi, Check also the German literature. There is a book on biomonitoring by
Uwe Arndt. Lichens are used as regular parts of biomonitoring netowrks
all
over Germany as well as other countries in Europe. The problem might be
that since the networks were established some time ago, only periodic
reports of results would be published, and most likely in German. You
might check for reports of institutes such as the Landesanstalt fur
Immissionsschutz in Essen.
JL
J. A. Laurence
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Ithaca, NY 14853-1801 USA
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The_Sustainable_Farmstead.html will provide access to the files
(they are in the sustainable agriculture gopher and ftp archives) or you
may ftp or gopher to them directly. Use your web browser and surf to:
gopher://sunsite.unc.edu/11/.pub/academic/agriculture/sustainable_agriculture/
aquaculture-bioremediation-hyperaccumulators/
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ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/academic/agriculture/sustainable_agriculture/
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-From curtiss@asdi.com Tue Sep 12 21:57:46 EDT 1995
Article: 494 of sci.bio.botany
From: curtiss@asdi.com (Brian Curtiss)
Newsgroups: bionet.plants,sci.bio.botany
Subject: Re: Biogeology [Was: Plants and Pb]
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 22:20:26 -0700
Organization: Analytical Spectral Devices, Inc.
In article <DEoo2C.AKx@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au>,
staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian B Staples) wrote:
> "Gordon A. Fox" <gfox@ucsd.edu> writes:
> >hortus@ix.netcom.com (Joel Kroin ) wrote:
> >>Many years ago some researchers found some plants which have an
> >>affinity to absorb gold from soil over gold mine trailings. The process
> >>was not economically feasible. I doubt if further work was done.
>
> >I don't know about anyone being foolish enough to try to make money this
> >way, but I do know that (1) a lot of mineral exploration has been done
> >based on plants w/ known tolerances for particular minerals, and that did
> >pay off, at least some of the time, and (2) there's now a growing body of
> >experience in which plants are used for remediating contaminated soils.
> >There are obviously limitations and problems, but I don't think the idea
> >is one that should be scoffed at.
>
> A couple of (rather old) references for those interested in this topic:
>
> BROOKS, R.R. (1968). Biogeochemical prospecting in New Zealand.
> _NZ Sci. Review_ v.26(1): 9-12
>
> ANTONOVICS, J., BRADSHAW, A.D., and TURNER, R.G. (1971). Heavy metal
> tolerance in plants. _Advances in Ecological Research_ v.7: 1-85.
>
> The former refers, for example, to "... species such as _Viola calamina_,
> which grow only over zinc deposits in Western and Central Europe."
>
several other references on this topic:
Levinson, A.A. (1974) Introduction to Exploration Geochemistry. Applied
Publishing Ltd., Wilmette, Illinois, U.S.A.
--- this book has a section on the use of vegetation surveys (that is
where veg. samples are analyzed for their chemical content). The idea is
that some plants concentrate particular elements above what would be found
in the soil. Also, a tree's root system "samples" to a greater depth than
could be done by digging a soil pit.
A book by Brooks that might be a bit easier to find than the article
listed by the previous poster:
Brooks, R.R. (1972) Geobotany and Biogeochemistry in Mineral Exploration.
Harper and Row.
Hope this helps.
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-From rs6779@cehpx8.cen.uiuc.edu Mon Nov 28 22:57:23 EST 1994
Article: 26 of sci.bio.microbiology
From: rs6779@cehpx8.cen.uiuc.edu (Bob Solak)
Newsgroups: sci.bio.microbiology
Subject: Handbook of Bioremediation
Date: 21 Nov 1994 18:27:05 GMT
Organization: UIUC Engineering Workstation Labs
I talked to the geochemist that I got the Handbook from and he did not have
any gues as to how to get a copy except to inquire from the publisher. Although
the report is funded by the EPA it carries no report number and so I don't think
that it can be obtained through whatever government publications process is in
place for run-of-the-mill reports. I've included below all the information found
on the inside of the title page. A university bookstore should be able to purchase
the book directly from the publisher but I've been informed that this can get
expensive. Stay tuned in the coming days for more information on how to get a copy.
I'm planning to talk to some professors in the Department to see if they received
a copy and if so, the sender may have indicated how to get more copies.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publications Data
Handbook of bioremediation/ by Robert D. Norris ... [et al.]
(Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory).
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-56670-074-4
1. Soil remediation 2. Groundwater--Purification 3. In situ
bioremediation I. Norris, Robert D. II. Robert S. Kerr
Environmental Research Laboratory
TD878.H36 1993
628.5'2--dc20 93-21172
CIP
much deleted
...information in this documentation has been funded wholly or in part by
the United States Environmental Protection Agency under Contract NO.
68-C8-0058 ton Dynamic Corporation.....
Direcct all inquiries (concerning copying permission) to CRC Press, Inc.,
2000 Corporate Blvd., N.W., Boca Raton, Florida 33431
Copyright 1994 by CRC Press, Inc.
Lewis Publishers is an imprint of CRC Press
No claim to U.S. Government works
International Standard Book Number 1-56670-074-4
Library of Congeress Card Number 93-21172
Printed in United States of America 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
I would hold off on trying to buy a copy until I talk to my professors and
find out if there is a cheaper way.
Bob Solak
Environmental Engineering
University of Illinois
rs6779@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu
-From staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au Mon Sep 11 10:43:45 EDT 1995
Newsgroups: bionet.plants,sci.bio.botany
From: staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian B Staples)
Subject: Biogeology [Was: Plants and Pb]
Organization: Qld Department of Primary Industries
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 09:37:23 GMT
"Gordon A. Fox" <gfox@ucsd.edu> writes:
>hortus@ix.netcom.com (Joel Kroin ) wrote:
>>Many years ago some researchers found some plants which have an
>>affinity to absorb gold from soil over gold mine trailings. The process
>>was not economically feasible. I doubt if further work was done.
>I don't know about anyone being foolish enough to try to make money this
>way, but I do know that (1) a lot of mineral exploration has been done
>based on plants w/ known tolerances for particular minerals, and that did
>pay off, at least some of the time, and (2) there's now a growing body of
>experience in which plants are used for remediating contaminated soils.
>There are obviously limitations and problems, but I don't think the idea
>is one that should be scoffed at.
A couple of (rather old) references for those interested in this topic:
BROOKS, R.R. (1968). Biogeochemical prospecting in New Zealand.
_NZ Sci. Review_ v.26(1): 9-12
ANTONOVICS, J., BRADSHAW, A.D., and TURNER, R.G. (1971). Heavy metal
tolerance in plants. _Advances in Ecological Research_ v.7: 1-85.
The former refers, for example, to "... species such as _Viola calamina_,
which grow only over zinc deposits in Western and Central Europe."
Cheers, Ian S.
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-From seachild@earthlink.net Mon Nov 28 23:05:29 EST 1994
From: seachild@earthlink.net (Sean Chamberlin)
Newsgroups: sci.bio.microbiology
Subject: bioremediation
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 10:47:58 -0800
Organization: Ecobeach
Greetings!
Just found this group and was startled to see at least 4 messages on
BIOREMEDIATION. From what I gather, there is not a specific newsgroup for
this topic, but I wonder if there isn't sufficient interest to start one.
At least this forum is a good place to start.
Thanks, Bob, for the info on the Handbook of Bioremediation. You might
also check out:
"In situ bioremediation: When does it work?" by the National Research
Council, 1993, National Academy Press.
"Biotreatment of Industrial and Hazardous Waste" by Morris Leavin and
Michael Gealt, McGraw-Hill, 1993.
"Guide for Assessing and Remediating Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soils",
American Petroleum Institute, API Publication 1629, 1993.
You might also be interested to know that the EPA maintains a BBS
dedicated to bioremediation, avaliable through ATTIC (Alternative
Treatment Technology Information CLearinghouse: Dial 703-908-2138, 2400,
N,8,1). They also publish a FREE monthly publication called
"Bioremediation in the Field" which you may request over the phone.
Finally, I have some references from Kimberly Ogden at the University of
Arizonea, Department of Chemical Engineering, on RDX and TNT degradation.
She does a variety of work on plasmid isolation as well.
Keep me posted.
Sean Chamberlin
seachild@earthlink.net
-From staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au Mon Sep 11 10:44:33 EDT 1995
Newsgroups: bionet.plants,sci.bio.botany
From: staplei@planet.mh.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian B Staples)
Subject: Biogeology [Was: Plants and Pb]
Organization: Qld Department of Primary Industries
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 1995 09:37:23 GMT
"Gordon A. Fox" <gfox@ucsd.edu> writes:
>hortus@ix.netcom.com (Joel Kroin ) wrote:
>>Many years ago some researchers found some plants which have an
>>affinity to absorb gold from soil over gold mine trailings. The process
>>was not economically feasible. I doubt if further work was done.
>I don't know about anyone being foolish enough to try to make money this
>way, but I do know that (1) a lot of mineral exploration has been done
>based on plants w/ known tolerances for particular minerals, and that did
>pay off, at least some of the time, and (2) there's now a growing body of
>experience in which plants are used for remediating contaminated soils.
>There are obviously limitations and problems, but I don't think the idea
>is one that should be scoffed at.
A couple of (rather old) references for those interested in this topic:
BROOKS, R.R. (1968). Biogeochemical prospecting in New Zealand.
_NZ Sci. Review_ v.26(1): 9-12
ANTONOVICS, J., BRADSHAW, A.D., and TURNER, R.G. (1971). Heavy metal
tolerance in plants. _Advances in Ecological Research_ v.7: 1-85.
The former refers, for example, to "... species such as _Viola calamina_,
which grow only over zinc deposits in Western and Central Europe."
Cheers, Ian S.
--
Ian Staples E-mail : I.Staples@dpi.qld.gov.au
c/- P.O. Box 1054 MAREEBA Phone : +61 (0)70 928 555 Home 924 847
Queensland Australia 4880 Fax : +61 (0)70 923 593 " " "
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