Chromium accumulation and toxicity in aquatic vascular plants

Botanical Review

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 313-327

  Chandra, Prakash ^a   Kulshreshtha, Kamla ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

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Indexed keywords

ALGAE; ALTERNANTHERA SESSILIS; BACOPA MONNIERI; CERATOPHYLLUM DEMERSUM; CYPERUS; CYPERUS ESCULENTUS; EICHHORNIA; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; ELODEA CANADENSIS; HYDRODICTYON RETICULATUM; LAGAROSIPHON MAJOR; LEMNA; LEMNA AEQUINOCTIALIS; LEMNA MINOR; LEMNA PAUCICOSTATA; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; NAJAS INDICA; PISTIA; POTAMOGETON; SCENEDESMUS; SCENEDESMUS ACUTUS; SCIRPUS; SPIRODELA; SPIRODELA POLYRRHIZA; TRACHEOPHYTA; TRAPA NATANS; VALLISNERIA SPIRALIS; WOLFFIA GLOBOSA;

EID: 31844433702     PISSN: 00068101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1663/0006-8101(2004)070[0313:CAATIA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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