Screening of some date palm cultivars to salt stress in vitro

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 961, Issue , 2012, Pages 359-365

  Ibraheem, Y M ^a   Pinker, I ^a   Bohme M ^a   Al Hussin, Z ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b University of Al Furat   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

Germination percentage; Germination velocity; NaCl stress; Phoenix dactylifera L.

Indexed keywords

PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA;

EID: 84872038391     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2012.961.47     Document Type: Article

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