Accumulation, distribution, and speciation of arsenic in wheat grain

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 5464-5468

  Zhao, Fang Jie ^a   Stroud, Jacqueline L ^a   Eagling, Tristan ^a   Dunham, Sarah J ^a   McGrath, Steve P ^a   Shewry, Peter R ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARSENIC; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); MILLING (MACHINING); PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

AS SPECIES; CONCENTRATION OF; EXTRACTION EFFICIENCIES; FIELD TRIAL; FOOD GRAIN; HUMAN INTAKE; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; LOW LEVEL; PHOSPHATE BUFFER SOLUTIONS; UNCONTAMINATED SOILS; WHEAT CULTIVARS; WHEAT GRAINS;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARSENIC; BIOACCUMULATION; CEREAL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CULTIVAR; NITRIC ACID; PHOSPHATE; SOIL TYPE; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ARTICLE; BRAN; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CULTIVAR; EXTRACTION; FARMING SYSTEM; FLUOR; GRAIN; NONHUMAN; SOIL ANALYSIS; WHEAT; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PLANT SEED; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

EUROPE;

ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; SEEDS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TRITICUM;

EID: 77954618253     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es100765g     Document Type: Article

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