Plant ToxicologyBertold Hock, Erich F. Elstner In order to keep track of all the compounds and pathogens affecting plant metabolism and development, you would need to spend all your waking hours combing periodicals and the Internet in dozens of languages, as new toxins via pollutants and migratory or mutant pathogens are being discovered every day. Plant Toxicology, Fourth Edition start |
Contents
Hazards from Pollutants | 1 |
Avoidance Adaptation Defense | 87 |
Chapter 3 Uptake and Transport of Xenobiotics | 131 |
Trace Gases as Inducers of Plant Damage | 151 |
Chapter 5 Limitation of Salt Stress to Plant Growth | 191 |
Aluminum and Manganese | 225 |
Chapter 7 Herbicides | 247 |
Inhibition of Cellular Pathways and Structural Components | 331 |
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