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Transgenic plants for phytoremediation: helping nature to clean up environmental pollutionBenoit Van Aken
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
Trends Biotechnol 26:225-7. 2008..This work suggests that transgenic plants might be able to contribute to the wider and safer application of phytoremediation...- Transgenic plants for enhanced phytoremediation of toxic explosivesBenoit Van Aken
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 20:231-6. 2009..Transgenic plants exhibiting biodegradation capabilities of microorganisms bring the promise of an efficient and environmental-friendly technology for cleaning up polluted soils... 
Leaching of contaminated leaves following uptake and phytoremediation of RDX, HMX, and TNT by poplarJong Moon Yoon
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Int J Phytoremediation 8:81-94. 2006..Such behavior for HMX was reported earlier and is reconfirmed here. All three compounds differ substantially in their fate and transport during the leaching process...- Mathematical modeling of RDX and HMX metabolism in poplar (Populus deltoides x Populus nigra, DN34) tissue cultureMelissa P Mezzari
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Int J Phytoremediation 6:323-45. 2004..The "green liver"-based models also demonstrated a reliable approach for the investigation of degradation pathways of nitramines within plant cells... - Methylobacterium populi sp. nov., a novel aerobic, pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic, methane-utilizing bacterium isolated from poplar trees (Populus deltoides x nigra DN34)Benoit Van Aken
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, 4105 Seamans Center, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54:1191-6. 2004..nov. (type strain, BJ001T=ATCC BAA-705T=NCIMB 13946T)... - Metabolism and mineralization of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine inside poplar tissues (Populus deltoides x nigra DN-34)Benoit Van Aken
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 4105 Seamans Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Environ Sci Technol 38:4572-9. 2004..This is the first time that a significant mineralization of RDX into CO2 by light-exposed plant tissue cultures is reported... - Analysis of gene expression in poplar trees (Populus deltoides x nigra, DN34) exposed to the toxic explosive hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX)Sachiyo Tanaka
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
Int J Phytoremediation 9:15-30. 2007..0 fold). These results show, for the first time, that the exposure of poplar plants to RDX results in the induction of several genes that are potentially involved in explosive detoxification... - Transgenic plants and associated bacteria for phytoremediation of chlorinated compoundsBenoit Van Aken
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Biotechnol Genet Eng Rev 26:43-64. 2010..This review focuses on recent advances in the development of transgenic plants and bacteria for the treatment of chlorinated pollutants, including chlorinated solvents, polychlorinated phenols, and chlorinated herbicides... 
The effects of individual PCB congeners on the soil bacterial community structure and the abundance of biphenyl dioxygenase genesPaola A Correa
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States
Environ Int 36:901-6. 2010..This paper showed that exposure to different PCB congeners leads to different structures of the soil bacterial community and BPH genes expression patterns...- Biodegradation of nitro-substituted explosives 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene, hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine, and octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5-tetrazocine by a phytosymbiotic Methylobacterium sp. associated with poplar tissues (Populus deltoides x Benoit Van Aken
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA
Appl Environ Microbiol 70:508-17. 2004..strain BJ001 may be involved in natural attenuation or in situ biodegradation (including phytoremediation) of explosive-contaminated sites... - Biodegradation of mono-hydroxylated PCBs by Burkholderia xenovoransRouzbeh Tehrani
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA
Biotechnol Lett 34:2247-52. 2012..These results provide the first evidence that bacteria are able to metabolize PCB derivatives hydroxylated on the non-chlorinated ring... - Evidence of perchlorate (ClO4-) reduction in plant tissues (poplar tree) using radio-labeled 36ClO4-Benoit Van Aken
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City 52242, USA
Environ Sci Technol 36:2783-8. 2002..2%), 36ClO3- (6.4%), 36ClO4- (22.7%), and an unidentified organic compound (0.5%). These results provide evidence of perchlorate reduction inside poplar tree tissues. 36ClO4- is partially reduced to 36ClO3-, 36ClO2-, and 36Cl-...