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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ilya Raskin, Manalapan, NJ (US);
Nanda P Kumar, New Brunswick, NJ (US);
Slavik Douchenkov, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Edenspace Systems Corporation, Reston, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
75711 ; 75712 ; 210602 ;
Abstract
A process for removal of metal ions from soil and methods for effecting such removal are described. The process is based on manipulating the growth of crop and crop-related members of the plant family Brassicaceae in metal-containing soils so that the metal in the soils is made more available to the plants. These particular plants will absorb metals into their roots making the metals non-leachable from the soils or will absorb the metal into their roots and transfer them to the shoots and/or roots which can be easily harvested.