Tungsten toxicity in plants

Plants

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 82-99

  Adamakis, Ioannis Dimosthenis S ^a   Panteris, Emmanuel ^a   Eleftheriou, Eleftherios P ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Actin microfilaments; Endoplasmic reticulum stress; Microtubules; Mitosis; Molybdenum cofactor; Programmed cell death; Tungsten toxicity; Unfolded protein response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885855207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22237747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/plants1020082     Document Type: Review

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