Cadmium toxicity in crop plants and its alleviation by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi: An overview

Plant Biosystems

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 609-621

  Garg, N ^a   Bhandari, P ^a  

^a PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhiza; cadmium; crops; functional biology; oxidative stress; stress tolerance

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

EID: 84922181050     PISSN: 11263504     EISSN: 17245575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11263504.2013.788096     Document Type: Article

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