Major and trace element contents in apples from a cultivated area of central Greece

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 185, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 8465-8471

  Skordas, Konstantinos ^a   Papastergios, Georgios ^b   Filippidis, Anestis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Agrochemical; Apple; Environment; Fertilizer; Greece; Potentially toxic element; Soil

Indexed keywords

AGROCHEMICAL; APPLE; ENVIRONMENT; GREECE; POTENTIALLY TOXIC ELEMENTS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FERTILIZERS; FRUITS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; NICKEL; SOILS; ZINC;

TITANIUM;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; ANTIMONY; ARSENIC; BARIUM; BORON; CADMIUM; CALCIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; FERTILIZER; IRON; LEAD; MAGNESIUM; MANGANESE; MERCURY; MOLYBDENUM; NICKEL; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; SCANDIUM; SELENIUM; SODIUM; STRONTIUM; SULFUR; TITANIUM; TRACE ELEMENT; ZINC;

AGROCHEMICAL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FRUIT; HEAVY METAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRACE ELEMENT;

APPLE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FOOD CONTAMINATION; GEOLOGY; GREECE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GREECE; MALUS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TRACE ELEMENTS;

GREECE;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 84884350370     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-013-3188-1     Document Type: Article

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