Too much is bad—an appraisal of phytotoxicity of elevated plant-beneficial heavy metal ions

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 3361-3382

  Anjum, Naser A ^a   Singh, Harminder P ^b   Khan, M Iqbal R ^c   Masood, Asim ^c   Per, Tasir S ^c   Negi, Asha ^b   Batish, Daizy R ^b   Khan, Nafees A ^c   Duarte, Armando C ^a   Pereira, Eduarda ^a   Ahmad, Iqbal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Cyto genotoxicity; Essential heavy metal ions; Phytotoxicity; Plant growth and metabolism

Indexed keywords

HEAVY METAL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; INTOXICATION; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SOIL POLLUTANT; TOXICITY;

METALS, HEAVY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANTS; POISONING; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84924095522     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3849-9     Document Type: Article

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