Physiological Response of Lemna Species to Herbicides and Its Probable Use in Toxicity Testing

Toxicology and Environmental Health Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-49

  Kumar, K Suresh ^a   Han, Taejun ^a  

^a SolarLight Ltd   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; ETRmax; Frond number; Herbicides; I PAM; Lemna sp; Relative growth rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84355165791     PISSN: 20059752     EISSN: 22337784     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03216512     Document Type: Article

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