Boron and plants

Plant Adaptation and Phytoremediation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 275-311

  Ozturk, Munir ^a   Sakcali, Serdal ^b   Gucel, Salih ^c   Tombuloglu, Huseyin ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b FATIH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Boron; Genotoxicity; Phytoremediation; Polygonum; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855724700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9370-7_13     Document Type: Chapter

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