{"id":22406,"date":"2025-10-31T08:11:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2025\/10\/31\/scientists-finally-discover-why-pumpkins-absorb-pollution-4\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T08:11:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:11:50","slug":"scientists-finally-discover-why-pumpkins-absorb-pollution-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2025\/10\/31\/scientists-finally-discover-why-pumpkins-absorb-pollution-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Finally Discover Why Pumpkins Absorb Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-finally-discover-why-pumpkins-absorb-pollution\/\" title=\"Scientists Finally Discover Why Pumpkins Absorb Pollution\"><\/a>Japanese scientists have found that a small change in plant proteins explains why pumpkins and zucchini absorb more pollution than other crops. The proteins help transport toxins through the plant\u2019s sap. By modifying this process, researchers hope to grow vegetables that resist contamination\u2014or use plants to cleanse toxic soils. The finding could make future harvests [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese scientists have found that a small change in plant proteins explains why pumpkins and zucchini absorb more pollution than other crops. The proteins help transport toxins through the plant\u2019s sap. By modifying this process, researchers hope to grow vegetables that resist contamination\u2014or use plants to cleanse toxic soils. The finding could make future harvests &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2025\/10\/31\/scientists-finally-discover-why-pumpkins-absorb-pollution-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientists Finally Discover Why Pumpkins Absorb Pollution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}