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SUBMITTER: Mourato MP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4581231 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mourato Miguel P MP Moreira Inês N IN Leitão Inês I Pinto Filipa R FR Sales Joana R JR Martins Luisa Louro LL
International journal of molecular sciences 20150804 8
Several species from the Brassica genus are very important agricultural crops in different parts of the world and are also known to be heavy metal accumulators. There have been a large number of studies regarding the tolerance, uptake and defense mechanism in several of these species, notably Brassica juncea and B. napus, against the stress induced by heavy metals. Numerous studies have also been published about the capacity of these species to be used for phytoremediation purposes but with mixe ...[more]