Germination of untreated and primed seeds in rapeseed (brassica napus var oleifera del.) under salinity and low matric potential

Experimental Agriculture

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 238-251

  Pace, Roberta ^a   Benincasa, Paolo ^a   Ghanem, Michel Edmond ^b   Quinet, Muriel ^b   Lutts, Stanley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRASSICA NAPUS;

EID: 84858212866     PISSN: 00144797     EISSN: 14694441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0014479711001189     Document Type: Article

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