Salinity stress: Physiological constraints and adaptive mechanisms

Plant Stress Physiology

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 59-93

  Shabala, Sergey ^a   Munns, Rana ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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