Enhancing the performance of direct seeded fine rice by seed priming

Plant Production Science

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 446-456

  Farooq, Muhammad ^a   Basra, S M A ^a   Tabassum, R ^b   Afzal, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

amylase; Direct seeding; Hardening; Osmohardening; Quality; Rice; Yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750457308     PISSN: 1343943X     EISSN: 13491008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1626/pps.9.446     Document Type: Article

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