Response of corn to cadmium and drought stress and its potential use for phytoremediation

Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 357-368

  Azizian, A ^a   Amin, S ^a   Maftoun, M ^a   Emam, Y ^a   Noshadi, M ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cadmium; Corn; Drought; Phytoremediation; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877280192     PISSN: 16807073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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