How plants adapt their physiology to an excess of metals

Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 751-762

  Bertrand, Martine ^a   Guary, Jean Claude ^a   Schoefs, Benoît ^b  

^a Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

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