Phytoremediation is the use of plants to extract, sequester, and/or detoxify pollutants.
Phytoremediation is widely viewed as the ecologically responsible alternative to the …

: Two hundred and eighty-three chronic pain patients, consecutive admissions to the
Comprehensive Pain Center of the University of Miami School of Medicine, received an extensive …

… Li, OP Dhankher, and RB Meagher, manuscript in preparation). We have repeated these
results for arsenate, selecting for the kanamycin resistance marker on the ACT2p/γ-ECS …

With global heavy metal contamination increasing, plants that can process heavy metals
might provide efficient and ecologically sound approaches to sequestration and removal. …

We examined the ability of yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) tissue cultures and plantlets
to express modified mercuric reductase (merA) gene constructs. Mercury-resistant bacteria …

… Baird, WV and Meagher, RB (1987) A complex gene superfamily encodes actin in petunia. …
and Meagher, RB (1990) Diverse soybean actin transcripts contain a large intron in the 5' …

Methylmercury is a highly toxic, organic derivative found in mercury-polluted wetlands and
coastal sediments worldwide. Though commonly present at low concentrations in the …

… Preliminary microarray experiments comparing wild-type and arp6-1 plants (RB Deal and
RB Meagher, unpublished data) revealed a large number of genes whose expression was …

Methylmercury is an environmental toxicant that biomagnifies and causes severe neurological
degeneration in animals. It is produced by bacteria in soils and sediments that have been …

Endogenous plant arsenate reductase (ACR) activity converts arsenate to arsenite in roots,
immobilizing arsenic below ground. By blocking this activity, we hoped to construct plants …