Extraordinary high aluminium tolerance of the acidophilic thermophilic alga, Cyanidium caldarium

Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 721-724

  Yoshimura, Etsuro ^a   Nagasaka, Seiji ^a   Sato, Yoshiyuki ^b   Satake, Kenichi ^c   Mori, Satoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO GAS CO LTD   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acidophilic thermophilic red alga; Aluminium tolerance; Cyanidium caldarium

Indexed keywords

CYANIDIUM CALDARIUM;

EID: 0032695329     PISSN: 00380768     EISSN: 17470765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00380768.1999.10415835     Document Type: Article

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