期刊论文

Yu, XZ

英文

Chemosphere

0045-6535

2004

56

2

121-126

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2004.02.008

This work was supported by a research foundation from the Hunan Agricultural University for scientists, grant no. 03YJ05. Thanks to the Institute of Crop Germplasm Resources, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science for the seeds of sorghum and corn, Daosong Jiang for species determination and Jun Liang for her engaged help. Thanks to Milos Sismilich for assisting with the language problems.

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