Brassica Plants to Provide Enhanced Human Mineral Nutrition: Selenium Phytoenrichment and Metabolic Transformation

Journal of Medicinal Food

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 253-261

  Orser, Cindy S ^a   Salt, David E ^b   Pickering, Ingrid J ^c   Prince, Roger C ^d   Epstein, Armona ^a   Ensley, Burt D ^a  

^a Phytotech Inc   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 85000157585     PISSN: 1096620X     EISSN: 15577600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jmf.1998.1.253     Document Type: Article

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