Arsenic hyperaccumulation by different fern species
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Arsenic Phytoextraction and Hyperaccumulation by Fern Species
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عنوان ژورنال: New Phytologist
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0028-646X,1469-8137
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.2002.00493.x