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Phytoremediation is a complex process by which plants reduce environmental contamination. Plants that are able to remove toxic metals from the environment by the process of their accumulation in their tissues, are collectively called to as hyperaccumulators. Metal accumulating species can be used for phytoremediation (removal of contaminant from soils) or phytomining (growing plants to harvest the metals). Hyperaccumulator plants often appear to be restricted in their distribution to metalliferous soils, from whic...