Arsenic Toxicity in Plants and Possible Remediation

Soil Remediation and Plants: Prospects and Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 433-501

  Hasanuzzaman, Mirza ^a   Nahar, Kamrun ^a,b   Hakeem, Khalid Rehman ^c   Öztürk, Münir ^c,d,e   Fujita, Masayuki ^b  

^a SHER E BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Environmental contaminants; Heavy metals; Metalloids; Oxidative stress; Phytochelatin; Phytoremediation; Soil pollution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942932954     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-799937-1.00016-4     Document Type: Chapter

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