Calcium and silica biomineralizations in leaves of eleven aquatic species of the Pampean Plain, Argentina

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-36

  Borrelli, Natalia ^a,b   Fernández Honaine, Mariana ^a,b   Altamirano, Stella Maris ^a   Osterrieth, Margarita ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Biomineralization; Calcium oxalate crystal; Macrophyte; Pampean Plain; Silicophytolith

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BIOMINERALIZATION; CALCIUM; LEAF; MORPHOTYPE; OXALATE; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PHYTOLITH; SILICA; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; XYLEM;

ALTERNANTHERA PHILOXEROIDES; BIDENS; BIDENS LAEVIS; JUNCACEAE; JUNCUS; LUDWIGIA PEPLOIDES; MIKANIA; POLYGONUM; POLYGONUM HYDROPIPEROIDES; RANUNCULACEAE; RANUNCULUS APIIFOLIUS; RUMEX; RUMEX CRISPUS; SOLANUM GLAUCOPHYLLUM; TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

EID: 78650188248     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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