Sustainable cultivation and exploitation of halophyte crops in a salinising world

Environmental and Experimental Botany

Volumn 92, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-3

  Rozema, Jelte ^a   Muscolo, Adele ^b   Flowers, Tim ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84878198830     PISSN: 00988472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2013.02.001     Document Type: Editorial

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