New practices in the cultivation of the mint, Mentha arvensis in the Indo-Gangetic plains

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 199-207

  Singh, A K ^a   Srivastava, R K ^a   Kalra, A ^a   Bansal, R P ^a   Tomar, V K S ^a   Bahl, J R ^a   Kumar, Sushil ^a,b  

^a CSIR CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS   (India)

^b National Centre for Plant Genome Research   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAJANUS CAJAN; CATOSTOMIDAE; CICER; CICER ARIETINUM; MENTHA; MENTHA ARVENSIS; ORYZA SATIVA; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0037394851     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479702001205     Document Type: Article

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