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Brownfield restoration refers to the ecological rehabilitation of contaminated or degraded industrial and urban lands using targeted plant-based strategies. This approach matters for plant science because it relies on identifying and understanding species capable of phytoremediation—tolerating and even extracting heavy metals or pollutants from soil—thereby revealing plant stress-response mechanisms and metal uptake pathways. Such research also informs the selection and breeding of resilient crop and biofuel species suited for growth in compromised soils, expanding the practical applications of plant physiology and genetics.

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