Chemical seed priming as a simple technique to impart cold and salt stress tolerance in capsicum

Journal of Crop Improvement

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 497-503

  Patade, Vikas Yadav ^a   Kumari, Maya ^a   Ahmed, Zakwan ^a  

^a Defence Institute of Bio Energy Research   (India)

Author keywords

Capsicum; Cold stress; Salt stress; Seed priming; Timson's index

Indexed keywords

CAPSICUM; CAPSICUM ANNUUM;

EID: 80053511238     PISSN: 15427528     EISSN: 15427536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15427528.2011.587139     Document Type: Article

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