Chloride methylation by plant pectin: An efficient environmentally significant process

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5630, 2003, Pages 206-209

  Hamilton, John T G ^a,b   McRoberts, W Colin ^a   Keppler, Frank ^b   Kalin, Robert M ^b   Harper, David B ^b  

^a Dept Agric/Rural Devmt N Ireland ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEMS; GAS EMISSIONS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CHLORIDE METHYLATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHLORIDE; PECTIN; METHYL CHLORIDE; WATER;

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; BIOMASS BURNING; CHLORIDE; OZONE DEPLETION; PLANT; STRATOSPHERE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENT; METHYLATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRATOSPHERE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT LEAF; POACEAE; TEMPERATURE; VOLATILIZATION; WOOD;

ATMOSPHERE; BIOMASS; CHLORIDES; ECOSYSTEM; METHYL CHLORIDE; METHYLATION; PECTINS; PLANT LEAVES; POACEAE; TEMPERATURE; VOLATILIZATION; WATER; WOOD;

EID: 0037477479     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1085036     Document Type: Article

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