Heavy metal inducible compounds from Fontinalis antipyretica reacting with Ellman's reagent are not phytochelatins

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 241, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 215-216

  Bruns, I ^a   Friese, K ^b   Markert, B ^c   Krauss, G J ^a  

^a Div of Ecol and Plant Biochemistry   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c International Graduate School Zittau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fontinalis antipyretica; Glutathiones; Moss; Phytochelatins

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GLUTATHIONE; HEAVY METAL; PEPTIDE;

DETOXIFICATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOSS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR;

FONTINALIS ANTIPYRETICA;

EID: 0032827658     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(99)00350-2     Document Type: Article

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