The requirement of selenium for the growth of marine coccolithophorids, Emiliania huxleyi, Gephyrocapsa oceanica and Helladosphaera sp. (Prymnesiophyeeae)

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 762-766

  Danbara, Akiko ^a,b   Shiraiwa, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial seawater; Coccolithophorids; Emiliania huxleyi; Gephyrocapsa oceanica; Helladosphaera; Selenium depletion; Selenium requirement

Indexed keywords

ALGA GROWTH; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT GROWTH; SELENIUM;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; GEPHYROCAPSA OCEANICA; HELLADOSPHAERA;

EID: 0032811443     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pcp.a029603     Document Type: Article

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