| Impact ID |
Scientific Name
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Impact Type
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Study Type
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Study Location
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Impact Description
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Geographic Location
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Reference
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7974
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Echinochloa crus-galli
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Water Quality Benefit
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Experimental
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Laboratory
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Echinochloa crus-galli is capable of leaching excess salts from soils and has been used for soil reclamation in Egypt.
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24881
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7975
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Echinochloa crus-galli
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Water Quality Benefit
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Experimental
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Laboratory
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Echinochloa crus-galli (barnyard grass) is able to remove cadmium, copper, and lead from the soil. This ability is enhanced when citric acid is added to the soil.
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Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
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24911
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7976
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Echinochloa crus-galli
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Water Quality Benefit
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Experimental
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Field
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Echinochloa crus-galli (barnyard grass) is also capable of accumulating zinc from wastewater.
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24918
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7977
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Echinochloa crus-galli
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Water Quality Benefit
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Anecdotal
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N/A
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Germination of Echinochloa crus-galli (barnyard grass) was unaffected when exposed to the waste from a coke plant, a pulp mill, and a wastewater treatment facility. Barnyard grass seedling growth increased after being exposed to some of the pollutants from a wastewater treatment plant. The ability to withstand unknown pollutants, and even thrive under some conditions, indicated the potential to use E. crus-galli in constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment.
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24883
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