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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2022

Bioremediation of mercury-polluted soil and water by the plant symbiotic fungus

Congcong Wu, Dan Tang, Jin Dai, Xingyuan Tang, Yuting Bao, Jiali Ning, Qing Zhen, Hui Song, Raymond J St Leger, Weiguo Fang

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Impacts of pollution on the soil microbiome.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026
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  5. Unveiling a Novel Zearalenone Biodegradation Pathway inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  6. The evolutionary genomics of adaptation to stress in wild rhizobium bacteria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  7. Utilization ofFrontiers in fungal biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Congcong WuMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6255-1439
Dan TangMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Jin DaiMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Xingyuan TangMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Yuting BaoMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Jiali NingMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Qing ZhenMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Hui SongMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Raymond J St LegerDepartment of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.
Weiguo FangMinistry of Education Key Laboratory of Biosystem Homeostasis and Protection, Institute of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0000-0002-8431-8256
Zhejiang University · CNUniversity of Maryland, College Park · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fungi are central to every terrestrial and many aquatic ecosystems, but the mechanisms underlying fungal tolerance to mercury, a global pollutant, remain unknown. Here, we show that the plant symbiotic fungus

Indexed as

MercuryMetarhiziumMethylmercury CompoundsBiodegradation, EnvironmentalEcosystemPhylogenySoilWaterMercuryMethylmercury CompoundsSoilWaterbioremediationfungimercury toleranceMetarhizium

Identifiers

PMID36375055
PMCPMC9704736
OpenAlexW4309153856

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