Tobacco has been engineered with a bacterial nitroreductase that facilitates degradation of trinitrotoluene.
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Meagher, R. Pink water, green plants and pink elephants. Nat Biotechnol 19, 1120–1121 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1201-1120
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