Using chlorophyll a fluorescence to detect the onset of anthracene photoinduced toxicity in Lemna gibba, and the mitigating effects of a commercial humic acid

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 3 II, 1999, Pages 878-888

  Gensemer, Robert W ^a,b   Dixon, D George ^a   Greenberg, Bruce M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ENSR Consulting and Engineering Fort Collins   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LEMNA GIBBA;

EID: 0032909166     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.3_part_2.0878     Document Type: Article

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