Common fallacies in plant physiology in understanding osmotolerance: Newer methodology to define the phenotype

Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 107-123

  Sitaramam, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

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