Vetiveria zizanioides as a tool for environmental engineering

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 457, Issue , 1998, Pages 261-269

  Mucciarelli, M ^a   Bertea, C M ^a   Cozzo, M ^a   Scannerini, S ^a   Gallino, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell culture; Environmental bioremediation; Essential oil; Micropropagation; Photosynthetic mechanism; Vetiveria zizanioides Stapf.

Indexed keywords

EID: 2942701684     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.1998.457.33     Document Type: Article

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