Phytoremediation of organomercurial compounds via chloroplast genetic engineering

Plant Physiology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1344-1352

  Ruiz, Oscar N ^a   Hussein, Hussein S ^b   Terry, Norman ^b   Daniell, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON MOBILITY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MERCURY (METAL); PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SOILS;

PHYTOREMEDIATION;

ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037700822     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.020958     Document Type: Article

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