Transgenic Indian mustard overexpressing selenocysteine lyase or selenocysteine methyltransferase exhibit enhanced potential for selenium phytoremediation under field conditions

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 599-605

  Bañuelos, Gary ^a   Leduc, Danika L ^b,d   Pilon Smits, Elizabeth A H ^c   Terry, Norman ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIELD CONDITIONS; GENES ENCODING; PHYTOREMEDIATION;

BIOREMEDIATION; CONTAMINATION; ENZYMES; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SELENIUM;

SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL;

BORON; LYASE; METHYLTRANSFERASE; SELENIUM; SELENOCYSTEINE LYASE; SELENOCYSTEINE METHYLTRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOREMEDIATION; CONTAMINATION; ENZYMES; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SELENIUM; SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL;

BORON; PHYTOREMEDIATION; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SELENIUM; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARTICLE; BRASSICA; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENZYME ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOREMEDIATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPRING; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CALIFORNIA; LYASES; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MUSTARD PLANT; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; SEASONS; SELENIUM; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

BRASSICA JUNCEA;

EID: 33846184627     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061152i     Document Type: Article

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