Germination and growth response of three wheat cultivars to NaCl salinity

Soil and Environment

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-43

  Hussain, Saddam ^a   Khaliq, Abdul ^a   Matloob, Amar ^a   Wahid, Muhammad Ashfaq ^a   Afzal, Irfan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Germination; Salt stress; Seedling growth; Suppression; Tolerance; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878236233     PISSN: 20749546     EISSN: 20751141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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