Effect of sulphuric acid pretreatment on breaking hard seed dormancy in diverse accessions of four wild Corchorus species

Seed Science and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 568-572

  Kak, A ^a   Pandey, C ^a   Gupta, V ^a   Bhardwaj, M ^a   Dashora, K ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORCHORUS; CORCHORUS AESTUANS; CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS; CORCHORUS TRILOCULARIS;

EID: 73649126515     PISSN: 02510952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15258/sst.2009.37.3.05     Document Type: Article

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