On the 8th of September 2017 the candidate María Touceda González successfully defended her doctoral thesis in the Instituto de Investigaciones Agrobiológicas de Galicia (IIAG-CSIC) in Santiago de Compostela. The thesis was carried out under the supervision of Dr. Ángeles Prieto Fernández and Dr. Petra...
Taking advantage of the PhytoSUDOE project, Dr Michel Mench (INRA) and Dr Philippe Le Coustumer (UniV; Bordeaux and Uni. Pau et Pays de l’Adour), are currently teaching risk assessment and phytomanagement of contaminated soils at this brownfield site (S1) to Master students of the Bordeaux...
In a recently-published paper, Quintela-Sabaris et al. (2017) reported the results of a study using metal-contaminated soils from ten European phytomanaged field trials, and which included two of the PhytoSUDOE field sites (Touro, Spain and Saint-Médard d’Eyrans, France; S8 and S1, respectively). Lettuce plants were...
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...