Alleviation of salt stress in fine aromatic rice by seed priming

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1401-1407

  Afzal, Irfan ^a   Butt, Adeel ^a   Rehman, Hafeez Ur ^a   Basra, Shahzad Maqsood Ahmad ^a   Afzal, Aneela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Rice; Salinity tolerance; Salts; Seed priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872781392     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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