Chromium accumulation in submerged aquatic plants treated with tannery effluent at Kanpur, India

Journal of Environmental Biology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 591-597

  Gupta, Kiran ^a   Gaumat, Sumati ^a   Mishra, Kumkum ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCKNOW   (India)

Author keywords

Biomonitoring; Bioremediation; Chromium; Hydrilla verticillata; Tannery effluent; Vallisneria spiralis

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLOROPHYLL; CHROMIUM; GRASS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROTEIN; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TANNIN; TOXICITY;

INDIA; KANPUR; UTTAR PRADESH;

HYDRILLA VERTICILLATA; VALLISNERIA SPIRALIS;

EID: 80655136076     PISSN: 02548704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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