Chromium speciation, bioavailability, uptake, toxicity and detoxification in soil-plant system: A review

Chemosphere - Tập 178 - Trang 513-533 - 2017
Muhammad Shahid1, Saliha Shamshad1, Muhammad Tariq Rafiq1, Sana Khalid1, Irshad Bibi2,3, Nabeel Khan Niazi2,3,4, P. Bonville5, Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid6,1
1Department of Environmental Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Vehari 61100, Pakistan
2Institute of Soil and Environmental Sciences, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Faisalabad, 38040, Pakistan
3MARUM and Department of Geosciences, University of Bremen, Bremen D-28359, Germany
4Southern Cross GeoScience, Southern Cross University, Lismore 2480 NSW, Australia
5Centre d’Etude et de Recherche Travail Organisation Pouvoir (CERTOP), UMR5044, Université J. Jaurès - Toulouse II, 5 allée Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
6Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdulaziz University, P. O. Box 80216, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia

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