Growth and photosynthetic activity of micropropagated strawberry plants inoculated with endomycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and growing under drought stress

Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 365-370

  Borkowska, Bozenna ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POMOLOGY AND FLORICULTURE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll fluorescence; Drought stress; Growth; Micropropagation; Mycorrhization (AMF); Strawberry

Indexed keywords

FRAGARIA X ANANASSA; FUNGI;

EID: 0036909487     PISSN: 01375881     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-002-0031-7     Document Type: Article

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