Effect of metal toxicity on plant growth and metabolism: I. Zinc

Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 873-884

  Rout, Gyana Ranjan ^a   Das, Premananda ^b  

^a Regional Plant Resource Centre India   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Accumulation; Phytotoxicity; Tolerance; Transport; Uptake; Zinc

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957952975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2666-8_53     Document Type: Chapter

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