Stress-physiological investigations and chromosomal analyses on cloned Norway spruce trees exposed to various levels of ozone in open-top chambers

Chemosphere

Volumn 36, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 709-714

  Wonisch, A ^a   Muller M ^a   Tausz, M ^a   Soja, G ^b   Grill, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b ARC SEIBERSDORF RESEARCH GMBH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; OZONE; PIGMENT;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CLONE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DOSE RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; PLANT CELL; PLANT LEAF; TREE;

ABIES; EMBRYOPHYTA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 0032007910     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(97)10112-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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