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Not all mushrooms are alike: How fine underground braids could remedy heavy metal contamination
Common split-gill (Schizophyllum commune). Credit: Bernard Spragg/ Public Domain Among domestic mushroom pickers in Germany it goes without saying that many edible mushrooms in our forests are still contaminated with radionuclides as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Less well known is that mushrooms can also accumulate other heavy metals. A team from