New experimental plots established at the Cd/Zn mine of Rubiais (site S7) in May 2017 In February 2017, the CSIC and USC groups received cuttings of Salix smithiana from the Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Ornamental Gardening (Czech Republic). Salix smithiana has been shown...
Tobacco and sunflower are being tested at some plots of the S1 site. By applying successive cultures of high yielding crops with a secondary accumulator phenotype, the purpose is to annually strip the phytoavailable fraction of metal(loid)s in excess in the contaminated soils. Tobacco and...
Since December 2016, Michel Mench and its colleagues at INRA are using short-rotation coppice (SRC) species in an aided phytostabilisation experiment in PhytoSUDOE´s S1 site (St Médard d’Eyrans, France). Specifically, the Cu-excluder phenotype of poplar (Populus nigra L.) and willow (Salix caprea L.), both being...