Effects of PEG and NACL stress on two cultivars of corn (Zea mays l.) at germination and early seedling stages

World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2009, Pages 382-385

  Farsiani, A ^a   Ghobadi, M E ^a  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Corn; Early seedling stage; Germination; Peg and nacl stress

Indexed keywords

CORN; CORN (ZEA MAYS L.); DRY MATTERS; EARLY SEEDLING STAGE; FACTORIAL EXPERIMENT; GERMINATION RATES; RANDOMIZED DESIGN; STRESS CONDITION; SWEET CORNS; GERMINATION;

FORESTRY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; CULTIVATION; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78651535302     PISSN: 2010376X     EISSN: 20103778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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