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Hydroponics: A Versatile System to Study Nutrient Allocation and Plant Responses to Nutrient Availability and Exposure to Toxic Elements
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Seasonal variations in cadmium concentrations of plant leaves
1Department of Limnology and Environmental Protection, Post Office Box 62, FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
|August 15, 2002
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