Root morphological responses of three hot pepper cultivars to Cd exposure and their correlations with Cd accumulation

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 1151-1159

  Huang, Baifei ^a,b   Xin, Junliang ^a,b   Dai, Hongwen ^a   Liu, Aiqun ^a   Zhou, Wenjing ^a   Yi, Yumei ^a   Liao, Kebing ^a  

^a HUNAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cadmium (Cd); Cultivars; Hot pepper (Capsicum annuum L.); Root morphology; Translocation

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM;

CHEMISTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PEPPER; PLANT ROOT; SEEDLING;

CADMIUM; CAPSICUM; PLANT ROOTS; SEEDLING;

EID: 84939883180     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3405-7     Document Type: Article

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