{"id":16725,"date":"2018-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/plants-fungi-and-bacteria-work-together-to-clean-polluted-land\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T04:00:00","slug":"plants-fungi-and-bacteria-work-together-to-clean-polluted-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/plants-fungi-and-bacteria-work-together-to-clean-polluted-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants, fungi and bacteria work together to clean polluted land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A novel study by bioinformatics and plant-biology experts from McGill University and Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al was published in the journal Microbiome.<\/p>\n<p>Using advanced techniques for analyzing the simultaneous expression of genes from multiple organisms in an ecosystem, the scientists examined the roots of willows grown on a polluted site in suburban Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>Their research showed that highly complex interactions among roots, fungi and bacteria underlie the ability of some trees to clean polluted land, a process known as phytoremediation.<\/p>\n<p>This study was funded in part by G\u00e9nome Qu\u00e9bec and Genome Canada as part of the GenoRem Project.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcgill.ca\/newsroom\/channels\/news\/plants-fungi-and-bacteria-work-together-clean-polluted-land-286247\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read McGill University and Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al joint press release, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s40168-018-0432-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read the article published in the journal Microbiome, click here. <\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Picture Caption<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>New genetic evidence suggests willow trees may tolerate pollution by providing sugars to symbiotic fungi surrounding their roots; the fungi, in turn, provide nutrients to hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Credit: Ectomycorrhizal Fungi image by Dr. Hugues Massicotte, Forest Ecology and Management, University of Northern British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel study by bioinformatics and plant-biology experts from McGill University and Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al was published in the journal Microbiome. Using advanced techniques for analyzing the simultaneous expression of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}