Calcium enhances cadmium tolerance and decreases cadmium accumulation in lettuce (Lactuca sativa)

Walid Zorrig; Zaigham Shahzad; Chedly Abdelly; Pierre Berthomieu

doi:10.5897/AJB11.2343

African Journal of
Biotechnology

Abbreviation: Afr. J. Biotechnol.
Language: English
ISSN: 1684-5315
DOI: 10.5897/AJB
Start Year: 2002
Published Articles: 12487

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Calcium enhances cadmium tolerance and decreases cadmium accumulation in lettuce (Lactuca sativa)

Walid Zorrig1,2*, Zaigham Shahzad1,3, Chedly Abdelly2 and Pierre Berthomieu1

1Biochimie and Physiologie Moléculaire des Plantes, Unité Mixte de Recherche CNRS-INRA-Université Montpellier II-Montpellier supagro, Place Viala, 34060 Montpellier Cédex 2, France. 2Laboratoire des Plantes Extrêmophiles, Centre de Biotechnologie, BP 901, Hammam-Lif 2050, Tunisie. 3Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan.
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Article Number - D28930B37620
Vol.11(34), pp. 8441-8448 , April 2012
https://doi.org/10.5897/AJB11.2343

Accepted: 04 November 2011
Published: 26 April 2012

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