Phytoremediation for Urban Agriculture with Marie-Anne Viau and Dr. Adrian Paul
Release Date: 06/07/2024
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info_outline“Can we simultaneously decontaminate and cultivate? An urban cherry tomato story” with Marie-Anne Viau and Dr. Adrian Paul
Contamination of various kinds can make it difficult to ensure healthy and safe food crops in urban agriculture. Phytoremediation is a strategy where we may be able to use plants’ incredible natural abilities to help with this problem. This episode, Marie-Anne and Adrian join me to discuss harnessing phytoremediation to help clean soils for tomato crops.
Tune in to learn:
· How phytoremediation works
· How researchers process contaminated plant material
· Whether phytoremediation can help boost soil health and yields
· How phytoremediation compares to other phytoremediation methods
If you would like more information about this topic, this episode’s paper is available here: https://doi.org/10.1002/uar2.20051
This paper is always freely available.
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If you would like to reach out to Marie-Anne, you can find her here:
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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marie-Anne-Viau
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Resources
The Potential for Urban Agriculture in New York City: growing capacity, food security & green infrastructure: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268516292_The_Potential_for_Urban_Agriculture_in_New_York_City_growing_capacity_food_security_green_infrastructure
Carrot City: Creating Places for Urban Agriculture: https://www.torontomu.ca/carrotcity/book.html
Articles mentioned by Adrian:
“Beyond Cleansing: Ecosystem Services Related to Phytoremediation” article: https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/12/5/1031
“Reclamation of urban brownfields through phytoremediation: Implications for building sustainable and resilient towns” article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1618866721003915
Coverage on research presented in English:
“Montreal researchers use willows to decontaminate polluted soil, groundwater” article: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-researchers-use-willows-to-decontaminate-polluted-soil-groundwater-1.4672233
“Researchers are using plants to tackle urban pollution” article: https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/researchers-are-using-plants-to-tackle-urban-pollution/
“Where there's a willow, there's a way: City using saplings to decontaminate land” news story: https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/where-there-s-a-willow-there-s-a-way-city-using-saplings-to-decontaminate-land-1.3947252
Research leader Michel Labrecque’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/MichelPhyto
Plant Biology Research Institute Twitter: https://twitter.com/IRBV_Montreal
Website for research leader Michel Labrecque: https://irbv.umontreal.ca/le-personnel/michel-labrecque/
Urban Agriculture program at Collège Ahuntsic (French): https://www.collegeahuntsic.qc.ca/programmes-dec/techniques/agriculture-urbaine
Cultive ta Ville Montreal (French): https://cultivetaville.com/fr/cartes/montreal
Adrian mentions a plant with up to 25% of Ni, but it is 25% of Ni in the latex, not the sap. More information can be found here: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45398434
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