{"id":52271,"date":"2018-12-17T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=52271"},"modified":"2018-12-17T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T15:02:24","slug":"polish-researcher-to-test-the-unusual-properties-of-hallers-cress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/polish-researcher-to-test-the-unusual-properties-of-hallers-cress\/","title":{"rendered":"Polish researcher to test the unusual properties of Haller&#8217;s cress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Alicja Babst-Kostecka from W\u0142adys\u0142aw Szafer Institute of Botany within Polish Academy of Sciences in Krak\u00f3w won the award of the Ministry of Investment and Development &#8216;Polish investments of the future&#8217; in the &#8216;Innovations for the environment&#8217; category.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim of the prize is to award people who successfully implement ambitious projects for environmental protection.<br \/>\nThe subject of the awarded project is the Haller\u2019s cress (Latin Arabidopsis halleri) &#8211; a white-flowering perennial which has spread to mining heaps and mines, i.e. contaminated areas with high concentrations of heavy metals in the soil.<\/p>\n<p>Haller&#8217;s cress attracted the attention of scientists thanks to its ability to survive in such conditions. It turned out that it is a so-called hyper accumulator and can accumulate from 100 to 500 times more heavy metals than other plants. Dr Babst-Kostecka&#8217;s team prepared an EU project to check its features and how it can be used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Alicja Babst-Kostecka from W\u0142adys\u0142aw Szafer Institute of Botany within Polish Academy of Sciences in Krak\u00f3w won the award of the Ministry of Investment and Development &#8216;Polish investments of the future&#8217; in the &#8216;Innovations for the environment&#8217; category. The aim of the prize is to award people who successfully implement ambitious projects for environmental protection. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}