Seed priming to increase salt and drought stress tolerance during germination in cultivated species of Amaranth

Seed Science and Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 781-785

  Moosavi, A ^a   Tavakkol Afshari, R ^a   Sharif Zadeh, F ^a   Aynehband, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b University of Chamran   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMARANTHUS CAUDATUS;

EID: 73649138228     PISSN: 02510952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15258/sst.2009.37.3.26     Document Type: Article

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