Toxins and their phytoremediation

Plant Adaptation and Phytoremediation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-32

  Ashraf, Muhammad ^a,b   Ozturk, Munir ^c   Ahmad, Muhammad Sajid Aqeel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^c EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cyanides; Explosives; Herbicides; Metals; Pesticides; Phytoremediation; Phytotoxins; Plant adaptation; Pollutants; Salts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884546376     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9370-7_1     Document Type: Chapter

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