The relative impact of lichen symbiotic partners to repeated copper uptake

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 84-92

  Branquinho, Cristina ^a   Matos, Paula ^a   Vieira, Ana Rute ^a   Ramos, Maria Margarida Prestello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Intracellular Cu; Mycobiont; Nostoc; Photobiont; Trebouxia

Indexed keywords

COPPER; CYANOBACTERIUM; ERGOSTEROL; GREEN ALGA; GROWTH FORM; LICHEN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PH; SYMBIONT;

ALGAE; CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC; TREBOUXIA;

EID: 79955125295     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2010.09.016     Document Type: Article

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