Alleviation of salinity-enforced seed dormancy in atriplex prostrata

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 35, Issue 5 SPEC.ISSUE., 2003, Pages 917-923

  Khan, M Ajmal ^a   Ungar, Irwin A ^b   Gul, Bilquees ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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