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'hyperaccumulators'

is a term given to a group of plants whose main characteristics consist of their ability to 'accumulate', to draw heavy metal residues from the soil. Research into these plants opens up a number of new possibilities of cleansing polluted soil.

'superhyperaccumulators'

are improved versions of the 'hyperaccumulator' plants. Developed jointly with the US, France and Germany, they represent a major leap in their capacity to draw large quantities of heavy metals from the soil. The implications of this project should be understood in terms of time, implying a more realizable, human scale dimension to the overall duration of a soil-cleansing project.
Today the new breed of plants are all becoming highly guarded, privately owned 'brands', therefore gaining access to these plants for research is difficult and costly.

more information:

Using Plants to Clean the Soil (1996)
Don Comis
www.css.cornell.edu/courses/190/abstr/kramer1.htm

Remediation of Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil
Jeff Fahrenholz
http://horticulture.coafes.umn.edu/vd/h5015/99papers/fahrenholz.htm

 

Index of 'hyper- und superaccumulators'

in the haus.0 greenhaus
and part 3 of the project Revival Fields (Stuttgart, 2000 - 01)