Comment on "Growing rice aerobically markedly decreases arsenic accumulation"

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3971-

  Van Geen, Alexander ^a   Duxbury, John M ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; GROUND WATER; SOIL WATER;

FLOODING; GREENHOUSE; LETTER; RICE; SOIL POLLUTION; TILLAGE; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AEROBIOSIS; ARSENIC; HUMANS; ORYZA SATIVA; PLANT ROOTS; POROSITY; SOIL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 66249107428     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9002982     Document Type: Letter

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