Effect of osmo- and hydropriming of chickpea seeds on seedling growth and carbohydrate metabolism under water deficit stress

Plant Growth Regulation

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-22

  Kaur, Satvir ^a   Gupta, Anil K ^a   Kaur, Narinder ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Acid invertase; Alkaline invertase; Amylase; Cicer arietinum; Germination; Sucrose phosphate synthase; Sucrose synthase; Water stress

Indexed keywords

HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SEED; STARCH; STRESSES; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

SHOOT LENGTHS;

GROWTH KINETICS;

CICER; CICER ARIETINUM;

EID: 0036587367     PISSN: 01676903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020310008830     Document Type: Article

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