Zn/Pb-tolerant lichens with higher content of secondary metabolites produce less phytochelatins than specimens living in unpolluted habitats

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 64-70

  Pawlik Skowronska B ^a   Backor M ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Cladonia; Glutathione; Heavy metal tolerance; Hypocenomyce; Lepraria; Lichen substances; Phytochelatins

Indexed keywords

IMMOBILIZATION; LEAD; LICHEN; METABOLITE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SYMBIONT; TOLERANCE; TOXICITY; ZINC;

ALGAE; CLADONIA; CLADONIA FURCATA; FUNGI; HYPOCENOMYCE; HYPOCENOMYCE SCALARIS; LEPRARIA; LEPRARIA ELOBATA; LEPRARIA INCANA;

EID: 79955089286     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2010.07.002     Document Type: Article

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