Biomarkers of cadmium pollution in plants;Biomarcadores de contaminación por cadmio en las plantas

Interciencia

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 112-119

  Pernía, Beatriz ^a   De Sousa, Andrea ^b   Reyes, Rosa ^b   Castrillo, Marisol ^b,c  

^a Universidad Simón Boívar USB   (Venezuela)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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