Metal tolerant mycorrhizal plants: A review from the perspective on industrial waste in temperate region

Arbuscular Mycorrhizas: Physiology and Function

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 257-276

  Turnau, Katarzyna ^a   Ryszka, Przemysław ^a   Wojtczak, Grzegorz ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Heavy metals; Industrial wastes; Phytoextraction; Phytoremediation; Phytostabilisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856581956     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9489-6_12     Document Type: Chapter

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