Effect of thermo priming on seedling production in Trigonella

Advances in Environmental Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3636-3640

  Sani, Behzad ^a   Farahani, Hosseein Aliabadi ^a   Maroufi, Kasra ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Germination percentage; Seedling dry weight; Seedling vigour and Trigonella; Thermo priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84055223049     PISSN: 19950756     EISSN: 19981066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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