Screening of tropical maize for salt stress tolerance

Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 304-313

  Giaveno, Carlos Daniel ^a   Ribeiro, Rafael Vasconcelos ^b   Souza, Gustavo Maia ^c   De Oliveira, Ricardo Ferraz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO AGRONÔMICO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE DO OESTE PAULISTA UNOESTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Maize; NaCl; Salinity; Screening; Stress

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 41149133372     PISSN: 15187853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12702/1984-7033.v07n03a10     Document Type: Article

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