The impacts on seedling root growth of water and salinity stress in maize (zea mays indentata sturt.)

Bulgarian Journal of Agricultural Science

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 313-320

  Bilgin, O ^a   Baser, I ^a   Korkut, K Z ^a   Balkan, A ^a   Saglam, N ^a  

^a NAMIK KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Corn; Drought; Dry matter; Leaf water loss; Root; Salinity; Shoot

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70350385218     PISSN: 13100351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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