Research Article
Characterization of Chromium Toxicity in Food Crops and their Role in Phytoremediation
| Hema Diwan2*, Altaf Ahmad1, Muhammad Iqbal1 | |
| 1Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, 110062, India | |
| 2Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Amity University, Noida, India | |
| Corresponding Author : | Hema Diwan Department of Botany Faculty of Science, Amity University Noida, India E-mail: diwanhema@gmail.com |
| Received: June 11, 2012; Accepted: July 07, 2012; Published: July 12, 2012 | |
| Citation: Diwan H, Ahmad A, Iqbal M (2012) Characterization of Chromium Toxicity in Food Crops and their Role in Phytoremediation. J Bioremed Biodeg 3:159. doi:10.4172/2155-6199.1000159 | |
| Copyright: © 2012 Diwan H, et al. This is an open-a ccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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