Clayton L Rugh
Affiliation: Michigan State University
- Genetically engineered phytoremediation: one man's trash is another man's transgeneClayton L Rugh
Michigan State University, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, 516 Plant and Soil Science Building, East Lansing, MI 48824 1325, USA
Trends Biotechnol 22:496-8. 2004..By contrast, a recent publication by Ellis and colleagues highlights potential anti-carcinogenic uses for plants genetically engineered primarily for detoxification of selenium-polluted soils and sediments...
- Green roof stormwater retention: effects of roof surface, slope, and media depthNicholaus D VanWoert
Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
J Environ Qual 34:1036-44. 2005..For both studies, vegetated green roof systems not only reduced the amount of stormwater runoff, they also extended its duration over a period of time beyond the actual rain event...
- Biodegrader metabolic expansion during polyaromatic hydrocarbons rhizoremediationClayton L Rugh
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, 516 Plant and Soil Science Bldg, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 1325, USA
Z Naturforsch C 60:331-9. 2005..These observations suggest that a principal contribution of planted systems for PAH bioremediation may be via expanded metabolic range of the rhizosphere bacterial community...
- Geochemical modulation of bioavailability and toxicity of nitroaromatic compounds to aquatic plantsMichael G Roberts
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 1325, USA
Environ Sci Technol 41:1641-5. 2007..So smectites can be used to sequester or release 2,4-DNT predictably and provide means to control bioavailability and environmental toxicity...
- Reducing bioavailability and phytotoxicity of 2,4-dinitrotoluene by sorption on K-smectite clayMichael G Roberts
Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, and Environmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 1325, USA
Environ Toxicol Chem 26:358-60. 2007..In the absence of K-smectite, 2,4-DNT was highly toxic to duckweed. Small amounts of K-smectite reduced toxicity substantially, presumably by reducing 2,4-DNT bioavailability via sorption...
- Toward detoxifying mercury-polluted aquatic sediments with rice genetically engineered for mercury resistanceAndrew C P Heaton
Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Environ Toxicol Chem 22:2940-7. 2003..Further genetic manipulation could yield plants with increased efficiency to extract soil Hg(II) and volatilize it as Hg(0) or with the novel ability to directly convert methylmercury to Hg(0)...