Seasonal fluctuations of selenium and sulfur accumulation in selenium hyperaccumulators and related nonaccumulators

New Phytologist

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 517-525

  Galeas, Miriam L ^a   Zhang, Li Hong ^a   Freeman, John L ^a   Wegner, Mellissa ^a   Pilon Smits, Elizabeth A H ^a  

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

Author keywords

Astragalus bisulcatus; Astragalus sericoleucus; Hyperaccumulation; Oxytropis sericea; Selenium (Se); Stanleya pinnata; Sulfur (S); Thlaspi montanum

Indexed keywords

SELENIUM; SULFUR;

DICOTYLEDON; HYPERACCUMULATION; LEGUME; SEASONAL VARIATION; SELENIUM; SULFUR; TRANSLOCATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRAGALUS PLANT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METABOLISM; OXYTROPIS; PLANT LEAF; SEASON; SOIL; THLASPI;

ASTRAGALUS PLANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXYTROPIS; PLANT LEAVES; SEASONS; SELENIUM; SOIL; SULFUR; THLASPI;

ASTRAGALUS BISULCATUS; ASTRAGALUS SERICOLEUCUS; OXYTROPIS; OXYTROPIS SERICEA; STANLEYA PINNATA; THLASPI; THLASPI MONTANUM;

EID: 33846192768     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01943.x     Document Type: Article

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