Phytoforensics

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Noun
  1. 1
    The analysis of plants in order to gather information of the pollutants they have been exposed to. uncountable

    "This form of phytoforensics is important for quality control especially in vegetatively propagated crops such as turfgrass (Caetano-Anollés et al. 1995)."

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"This form of phytoforensics is important for quality control especially in vegetatively propagated crops such as turfgrass (Caetano-Anollés et al. 1995)."

Etymology

From phyto- + forensics.

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