Ultraviolet-C mediated physiological and ultrastructural alterations in Juncus effusus L. shoots

Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 481-488

  Najeeb, Ullah ^a,b   Xu, Ling ^a   Ahmed, Zammurad I ^a,c   Rasheed, Muhammad ^a,c   Jilani, Ghulam ^c   Naeem, Muhammad S ^a   Shen, Weiqi ^d   Zhou, Weijun ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Pakistan)

^c PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Antioxidant enzymes; Aquatic flora; Chloroplast degradation; Mat rush; Plant growth; UV C

Indexed keywords

JUNCUS EFFUSUS;

EID: 79951770254     PISSN: 01375881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-010-0570-2     Document Type: Article

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