Improving crop resistance to abiotic stresses through seed invigoration

Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 1031-1050

  Farooq, Muhammad ^a   Wahid, Abdul ^a   Basra, Shahzad M A ^a   Siddique, Kadambot H M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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