Assessment of salt tolerance of some newly developed and candidate wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars using gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence attributes

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2693-2699

  Kanwal, Hina ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad ^a,b   Shahbaz, Muhammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

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TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84858026603     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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