Role of brassinosteroids on horticultural crops

Brassinosteroids: A Class of Plant Hormone

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 269-288

  Kang, Y Y ^a   Guo, S R ^b  

^a SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brassinosteroids; Environmental stress; Growth; Horticultural crop; Seed germination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872466935     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0189-2_9     Document Type: Chapter

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