Exogenous benzoic acid (BZA) treatment can induce drought tolerance in soybean plants by improving gas-exchange and chlorophyll contents

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 555-560

  Anjum, Shakeel Ahmad ^a   Ehsanullah, ^b   Xue, Lanlan ^a   Wang, Longchang ^a   Saleem, Muhammad Farrukh ^b   Huang, Cheng Jian ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll contents; Drought stress; Exogenous benzoic acid; Gas exchange; Soybean; Yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878028678     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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