Bioavailability of uranium and plutonium to plants in soil-water systems and the potential of phytoremediation

Trace Elements in the Rhizosphere

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 93-126

  Shahandeh, Hamid ^a   Lee, Jin Ho ^a   Hossner, Lloyd R ^a   Loeppert, Richard H ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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