Effects of water deficit stress on field performance of chickpea cultivars

African Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 5, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1973-1977

  Khamssi, Nahid Niari ^a   Golezani, Kazem Ghassemi ^b   Salmasi, Saeed Zehtab ^b   Najaphy, Abdollah ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^c RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Chickpea; Gradual water deficit; Grain yield; LAI; Proline; Quantum yield

Indexed keywords

CICER ARIETINUM;

EID: 78649296737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1991637X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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