Response of crop plant growth and radionuclides uptake to organic and chemical fertilization of black sand soil

Phyton - Annales Rei Botanicae

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 87-111

  Hegazy, Ahmad K ^a,c   Afifi, S Y ^b   Alatar, A A ^a   Kabiel, H F ^c   Emam, M H ^c  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Nucelar Materials Authority   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Brassicaceae; Eruca sativa; Lycopersicum esculentum; Phytostabilization; Rocket; Solanaceae; Thorium; Tomato; Uranium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880289302     PISSN: 00792047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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