Mercury toxicity in plants

Botanical Review

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 379-422

  Patra, Manomita ^a   Sharma, Archana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

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ACIDITHIOBACILLUS FERROOXIDANS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; AVENA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRASSICA; BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; EMBRYOPHYTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LIRIODENDRON; LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA; NEGIBACTERIA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PISUM SATIVUM; POPULUS BEROLINENSIS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPARTINA; TABACUM; THIOBACILLUS; TRACHEOPHYTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TULIPA; VIGNA UNGUICULATA; ZEA MAYS; ZIZANIA;

EID: 0000720060     PISSN: 00068101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02868923     Document Type: Article

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