Uptake and effects of six rare earth elements (REEs) on selected native and crop species growing in contaminated soils

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Carpenter, David ^a   Boutin, Céline ^a   Allison, Jane E ^a,b   Parsons, Jessica L ^a,c   Ellis, Deanna M ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYSPROSIUM CHLORIDE; ERBIUM CHLORIDE; LANTHANIDE; NEODYMIUM CHLORIDE; PRASEODYMIUM CHLORIDE; SAMARIUM CHLORIDE; TERBIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ARTICLE; ASCLEPIAS; ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMODIUM CANADENSE; GERMINATION; IC25; IC50; INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PHYTOTOXICITY; PLANT; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; RADISH; SOIL POLLUTION; TOMATO; CHEMISTRY; CROP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POLLUTION; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT;

ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA; DESMODIUM CANADENSE; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PANICUM VIRGATUM; RAPHANUS SATIVUS;

BIOMASS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GERMINATION; METALS, RARE EARTH; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 84936966689     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129936     Document Type: Article

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