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Thiol synthesis and arsenic hyperaccumulation in Pteris vittata (Chinese brake fern)

Weihua Zhang, Yong Cai, Kelsey R. Downum, Q. Lena

Environmental Pollution · 2004 · 82 citations · 32 references

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Estimation of total, protein-bound, and nonprotein sulfhydryl groups in tissue with Ellman's reagent

J Sedlák · Analytical Biochemistry · 1968 · 8K citations

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Cellular mechanisms for heavy metal detoxification and tolerance

J. L. Hall · Journal of Experimental Botany · 2002 · 2.8K citations · Full text

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David E. Salt, Richard Smith, Ilya Raskin · Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology · 1998 · 2K citations

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A fern that hyperaccumulates arsenic

Q. Lena, Kenneth M. Komar, Cong Tu et al. · Nature · 2001 · 1.8K citations

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Phytochelatins, the heavy-metal-binding peptides of plants, are synthesized from glutathione by a specific γ-glutamylcysteine dipeptidyl transpeptidase (phytochelatin synthase)

Erwin Grill, Susanne Löffler, Ernst‐L. Winnacker et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1989 · 911 citations · Full text

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