Seedling mortality of metal hyperaccumulator plants resulting from damping off by Pythium spp.

New Phytologist

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 219-224

  Ghaderian, Y S Majid ^a,b   Lyon, Anthony J E ^b   Baker, Alan J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alyssum; Damping off; Metal hyperaccumulation; Nickel; Pythium

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; DAMPING-OFF; MORTALITY; NICKEL; SEEDLING;

ALYSSUM SERPYLLIFOLIUM; PYTHIUM; PYTHIUM MAMILLATUM; PYTHIUM ULTIMUM;

EID: 0034127774     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2000.00645.x     Document Type: Article

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