Potential targets for improving photosynthesis and crop yield

Current Science

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1918-1928

  Sharma Natu, Poonam ^a   Ghildiyal, M C ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

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