Wheat seed priming in relation to salt tolerance: Growth, yield and levels of free salicylic acid and polyamines

Annales Botanici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 250-259

  Iqbal, Muhammad ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Growth; Hormonal balance; Kinetin; Physiology; Salt tolerance; Seed priming; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33748777455     PISSN: 00033847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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