Patent ID: 7049492

Claim:
A method of recovering cadmium and/or zinc from arable soil containing cadmium and/or zinc, comprising: (a) cultivating in said arable soil at least one Thlaspi caerulescens plant that accumulates from about 1000 to about 2600 mg cadmium/kg in above-ground tissues on dry weight basis and/or from about 15,000 to about 26,000 mg zinc/kg in above—ground tissues on dry weight basis under conditions sufficient to permit said at least one Thlaspi caerulescens plant to accumulate such amounts of cadmium and/or zinc; and (b) recovering the accumulated cadmium and/or zinc; wherein said at least one Thlaspi caerulescens plant is Thlaspi caerulescens genotype G15, seed of which have been deposited under ATCC Accession No: 203439.