Heavy Metal Accumulation and Physiological Consequences in Selected Food Plants Grown on Sewage Sludge Amended Soils

Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 140-147

  Mazen, Ahmed ^a  

^a SOHAG UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Food plants; Heavy metals; Liming; Nitrate reductase; Sewage sludge; Total soluble proteins

Indexed keywords

BIOACCUMULATION; CROP PRODUCTION; HEAVY METAL; SEWAGE; SOIL AMENDMENT;

CORCHORUS; ERUCA; RAPHANUS; RAPHANUS SATIVUS; SPINACIA;

EID: 0346671087     PISSN: 19859899     EISSN: 25360051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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