Copper tolerance and accumulation in two cuprophytes of South Central Africa: Crepidorhopalon perennis and C. tenuis (Linderniaceae)

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 84, Issue , 2012, Pages 11-16

  Faucon, Michel Pierre ^a,b   Chipeng, François ^a,c   Verbruggen, Nathalie ^a   Mahy, Grégory ^d   Colinet, Gilles ^d   Shutcha, Mylor ^c   Pourret, Olivier ^b   Meerts, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUT POLYTECHNIQUE LASALLE BEAUVAIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LUBUMBASHI   (Congo)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Copper accumulation; Copper tolerance; Cost of tolerance; Trace metals

Indexed keywords

COBALT; COPPER; DICOTYLEDON; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GROWTH RATE; HYPERACCUMULATION; POLLUTION TOLERANCE; SOIL POLLUTION;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; KATANGA;

CREPIDORHOPALON; LINDERNIACEAE;

EID: 84861333784     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2012.04.012     Document Type: Article

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