Effect of moisture stress on combining ability variation for bird resistance traits in sunflower (helianthus annuus l.)

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1319-1328

  Rauf, Saeed ^a   Sadaqat, H A ^a   Naveed, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

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Indexed keywords

AVES; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS;

EID: 47249115660     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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