PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE TRENDS IN THE REMEDIATION OF HEAVY-METAL CONTAMINATED SOIL - REMEDIATION TECHNIQUES APPLIED IN REAL SOIL-CONTAMINATION EVENTS

Past, present and future trends in the remediation of heavy-metal contaminated soil - Remediation techniques applied in real soil-contamination events

Most worldwide policy frameworks, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlight soil as a key non-renewable natural resource which should be rigorously preserved to achieve long-term global sustainability.Although some soil is naturally enriched with heavy metals (HMs), a series of anthropogenic activities are known to contr

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VAPA, an innovative "virus-acquisition phenotyping assay" opens new horizons in research into the vector-transmission of plant viruses.

Host-to-host transmission--a key step in plant virus infection cycles--is ensured predominantly by vectors, especially aphids and related insects.A deeper understanding Boxers of the mechanisms of virus acquisition, which is critical to vector-transmission, might help to design future virus control strategies, because any newly discovered molecular

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