Evaluation of mercury stress in plants from the Almadén mining district by analysis of phytochelatins and their Hg complexes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 6256-6263

  Dago, Àngela ^a   González, Inmaculada ^a   Ariño, Cristina ^a   Martínez Coronado, Alba ^b   Higueras, Pablo ^b   Díaz Cruz, José Manuel ^a   Esteban, Miquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; MERCURY (METAL); METAL COMPLEXES; SOILS;

AMPEROMETRIC DETECTION; DELETERIOUS EFFECTS; HEAVY METAL TOXICITY; HG CONCENTRATIONS; MINING DISTRICT; PHYTOCHELATINS; SOIL EXTRACTION; THIOL COMPOUNDS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

AMMONIUM ACETATE; CARBONIC ACID; EDETIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE; MERCURY; MERCURY SULFIDE; ORGANOMERCURY COMPOUND; PHYTOCHELATIN; THIOL DERIVATIVE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ANTIOXIDANT; CHELATING AGENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EVERGREEN TREE; MERCURY (ELEMENT); POLLUTION EFFECT; SOIL POLLUTION; TOXICITY;

AMPEROMETRY; ARTICLE; ASPARAGUS; ASPARAGUS ACUTIFOLIUS; BIOAVAILABILITY; HEAVY METAL POISONING; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MERCURY STRESS; MINING; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PLANT STRESS; SOIL POLLUTION; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL POLLUTANT; SPAIN; TOXICITY;

ALMADEN; CASTILLA-LA MANCHA; CIUDAD REAL [CASTILLA-LA MANCHA]; SPAIN;

ASPARAGUS PLANT; GLUTATHIONE; MERCURY; MINING; PHYTOCHELATINS; PLANT COMPONENTS, AERIAL; PLANT ROOTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SPAIN; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84901929962     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es405619y     Document Type: Article

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