Noccaea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae, native to temperate areas of western North America, southern South America, northern Africa, Europe and Asia.
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Noccaea alpestris
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Mirko Ubović · Federacija Bosna i Hercegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina · CC0
Understanding how certain plants recruit helpful soil microbes to survive in polluted ground coul...
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Scientists discovered that the bacteria living in and around the roots of a heavy-metal-tolerant alpine plant are specially adapted to the toxic soils the plant grows in — and that the plant itself actively shapes which microbes thrive there, sometimes more powerfully than the metal pollution does.