Microspore analysis for genotoxicity of a polluted environment

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-27

  Mičieta, Karol ^a   Murín, Gustáv ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

bioindication; genotoxicity; Microspores; native flora; pollen grains; polluted environment

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; GENOTOXICITY; POLLEN;

SLOVAKIA;

EID: 0030131598     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0098-8472(95)00050-X     Document Type: Article

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