Phytoremediation of cyanide

Plant Adaptation and Phytoremediation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 399-426

  Srivastava, Avinash C ^a   Duvvuru Muni, Rajasekhara Reddy ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyanide; Genetic engineering; Metabolism; Phytoremediation; Uptake

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920054810     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9370-7_18     Document Type: Chapter

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