Effect of seed priming on growth parameters of soybean

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2803-2812

  Arif, Muhammad ^a   Jan, Mohammad Tariq ^a   Khan, Naqib Ullah ^a   Khan, Ahmad ^a   Khan, M J ^a   Munir, Iqbal ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

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EID: 77958581914     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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