Action of mercury on the photosynthetic apparatus of spinach chloroplasts

Photosynthetica

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 551-559

  Sersen F ^a   Kral'ova K ^a   Bumbalova A ^a  

^a Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

EPR spectroscopy; Fluorescence spectroscopy; HgCl2; Photosynthesis; Radionuclide X ray fluorescence analyses

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLAST; ELECTRON TRANSFER; MANGANESE; MERCURY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

SPINACIA OLERACEA;

EID: 0032448018     PISSN: 03003604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006931024202     Document Type: Article

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