Arsenic hyperaccumulation by different fern species

New Phytologist

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 27-31

  Zhao, F J ^a   Dunham, S J ^a   McGrath, Steve P ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arsenic; Fern; Hyperaccumulation; Phytoremediation; Pteris species

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; ARSENIC; FERN; PHYTOREMEDIATION;

ASPLENIUM; ASPLENIUM NIDUS; DAVALLIA; FILICOPHYTA; POLYPODIACEAE; POLYPODIUM AUREUM; POLYSTICHUM; PTERIDIUM; PTERIS; PTERIS CRETICA; PTERIS LONGIFOLIA; PTERIS VITTATA;

EID: 0036788964     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2002.00493.x     Document Type: Article

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