Arsenic in edible and bioaccumulating plants

Arsenic: Natural and Anthropogenic

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 141-151

  Vasconcelos, Olívia ^a   Palmieri, Helena ^b   Matschullat, Jörg ^c   Deschamps, Eleonora ^d  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b CENTRO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DA TECNOLOGIA NUCLEAR   (Brazil)

^c TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^d FUMEC UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

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