Seed enhancement with cytokinins: Changes in growth and grain yield in salt stressed wheat plants

Plant Growth Regulation

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-39

  Iqbal, Muhammad ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad ^a   Jamil, Amer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Hormonal balance; Kinetin; Plant hormones; Salt tolerance; Seed priming; Wheat; Yield

Indexed keywords

CROPS; CULTIVATION; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GROWTH KINETICS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

GRAIN YIELD; SALT TOLERANCE; SEED ENHANCEMENT; SEED TREATMENT;

SEED;

ABSCISIC ACID; AUXINS; CYTOKININS; SEEDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33751512252     PISSN: 01676903     EISSN: 15735087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10725-006-9123-5     Document Type: Article

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