Biotechnological approaches to improve phytoremediation efficiency for environment contaminants

Environmental Bioremediation Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 223-258

  Singh, Rana P ^a   Dhania, Geeta ^a   Sharma, Asha ^a   Jaiwal, Pawan K ^a  

^a MAHARSHI DAYANAND UNIVERSITY   (India)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-34793-4_10     Document Type: Chapter

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