Lichens respond to heavy metals by phytochelatin synthesis

New Phytologist

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-102

  Pawlik Skowrońska, Barbara ^a   Di Toppi, Luigi Sanità ^b   Favali, Maria Augusta ^b   Fossati, Fabrizia ^b   Pirszel, Jacek ^a   Skowroński, Tadeusz ^a  

^a POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cadmium (Cd); Glutathione; Heavy metals; Lead (Pb); Lichens; Phytochelatins; Zinc (Zn)

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; LICHEN; ZINC;

ALGAE; FUNGI; PHYSCIA; PHYSCIA ADSCENDENS; PHYSCONIA; PHYSCONIA GRISEA; TREBOUXIA; XANTHORIA; XANTHORIA PARIETINA;

EID: 0036788045     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2002.00498.x     Document Type: Article

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