Interactive effect of heavy metals and gibberellic acid on mitotic activity and some metabolic changes of Vicia faba L. plants

Cytologia

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-282

  Mansour, Mahmoud Mohamed ^a   Kamel, Ehab Abdel Razik ^b  

^a Al Azhar University   (Egypt)

^b Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Gibberellic acid; Heavy metals stress; Metabolic changes; Mitotic activity; Vicia faba L.

Indexed keywords

VICIA FABA;

EID: 28244479408     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: 00114545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.70.275     Document Type: Article

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