Tobacco May Help Clean Up Pond Scum Toxin
Tobacco May Help Clean Up Pond Scum Toxin. Discovery News (3/10) reports tobacco, helped by "a couple extra genes" may disarm "a dangerous environmental toxin, called toxic pond scum," which "is a type of algae that makes water unsafe for drinking, swimming, fishing or watering crops." Pond scum poses "a big problem in the developing world," said Pascal Drake, a plant biotechnologist at St. Geo..