Petri Dish with the Bacterium Streptomyces lividans (IMAGE)

Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena

Petri Dish with the Bacterium Streptomyces lividans

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In the project, teams from the University of Jena are also looking for suitable bacteria - in the picture: Petri dish with the bacterium Streptomyces lividans - that fix heavy metals dissolved in the soil as biominerals.

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Jan-Peter Kasper/FSU

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