Effects of UV radiation on the rice field cyanobacterium, Aulosira fertilissima

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 281-289

  Banerjee, Meenakshi ^a,b   Häder, Donat P ^b  

^a BARKATULLAH UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Absorption spectroscopy; Aulosira fertilissima; protein profile; SDS PAGE; solar radiation; UV radiation

Indexed keywords

AULOSIRA; AULOSIRA FERTILISSIMA;

EID: 0030268296     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0098-8472(96)01017-9     Document Type: Article

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