Background: Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a globally important grain and vegetable legume crop, providing substantial portion of the diet protein minerals for many people in developing world. However, genetic studies improvement on this crop has long been impeded by its recalcitrance to Agrobacterium-mediated whole plant transformation. Established Agrobacterium rhizogenes-based hairy ...

This study focuses on lead detoxification using roots, stems, leaves and whole plants of Plantago major L. and Phaseolus vulgaris L. (decoration kidney bean) as a ball hanging hydroponically in deionized water supplemented with concentrations of lead ion under different duration times and temperatures regimes. Roots of studied plants showed that the highest removal of lead than other parts, whi...