Zoe Lai MSc Candidate, Regan Lab Exploring the cellular basis of environmental stress and plant development: Bioremediation potential of Senna and gene function in Populus As of 2021, the earth holds about 3.04 trillion trees. Plants account for 80% of the world’s total biomass. Trees, and plants in general, inherently play very important roles in our daily lives. My thesis examines the potential of a plant, Senna occidentalis, to phytoremediate arsenic- and cadmium-contaminated soils. Additionally, my thesis advances our understanding of leaf and stem development though the analysis of a mutant line of Populus tremula x Populus alba called shriveled leaf.
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