Water stress mediated changes in growth, physiology and secondary metabolites of desi ajwain (Trachyspermum Ammi L.)

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 43, Issue SPEC. ISSUE, 2011, Pages 15-19

  Azhar, Nazila ^a   Hussain, Bilal ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad Yasin ^b   Abbasi, Karim Yar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b NUCLEAR INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND BIOLOGY NIAB   (Pakistan)

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