Copper tolerance in the lichen photobiont Trebouxia erici (Chlorophyta)

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-20

  Backor M ^a,b   Vaczi P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll content; Co tolerance; Growth; Heavy metals; Phaeophytin

Indexed keywords

COPPER; LICHEN; TOLERANCE;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYTA; TREBOUXIA; TREBOUXIA ERICI;

EID: 0036084288     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(02)00004-7     Document Type: Article

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