Comparison of direct and indirect methods of measuring nitrogen fixation in field grown chickpea genotypes

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 199-207

  Hafeez, F Y ^a   Ahmad, T ^a   Hameed, S ^a   Danso, S K A ^a,b   Malik, K A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

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