Accumulation and translocation of cesium-137 in onion plants (Allium cepa)

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-7

  Bystrzejewska Piotrowska, Grazyna ^a   Urban, Pawel L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

137Cs; Acropetal and basipetal transport; Root and foliar contamination

Indexed keywords

CESIUM;

ALLIUM; ALLIUM CEPA;

EID: 1642485018     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-8472(03)00039-X     Document Type: Article

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