Stuart E. Strand

TL;DR: Poplar trees were found to be capable of taking up trichloroethylene (TCE) and degrading it to several known metabolic products: trich chloroethanol, trichchloroacetic acid, and dichloracetic acids as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Transgenic plants with a profound increase in metabolism of the most common contaminant, TCE, are engineered by introducing the mammalian cytochrome P450 2E1 enzyme, which oxidizes a wide range of important pollutants.

TL;DR: Nitrate consumption, along with the results from the 14C radiolabel study, are consistent with the oxidation of naphthalene coupled to denitrification for Nap-3-1 and nitrate reduction to nitrite for NAP-4, the first report the authors know of that demonstrates nitrate-dependent anaerobic degradation and mineralization of nphthalene by pure cultures.

TL;DR: In this article, transgenic poplar (Populus tremula × Populus alba) plants with greatly increased rates of metabolism and removal of these pollutants through the overexpression of cytochrome P450 2E1, a key enzyme in the metabolism of a variety of halogenated compounds.

TL;DR: Batch incubations of FBR cells, using strict anaerobic techniques, confirmed the transformation of naphthalene, biphenyl, and phenanthrene with stoichiometric removal of nitrate by the nitrate FBR enrichment.