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We are looking at hyperaccumulating plants, and I wanted to know what happens to the heavy-matals in the plant when the plant dies. Do they go back into the soil as a contaminant, do they simply "leave" as non-toxic elements etc? If you could help me that would be great.

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They go back to the soil.

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