Impact of double Zn and Se biofortification of wheat plants on the element concentrations in the grain

Plant, Soil and Environment

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 316-321

  Germ, Mateja ^a   Pongrac, P ^a   Regvar, M ^a   Vogel Mikus K ^a   Stibilj, V ^b   Jacimovic R ^b   Kreft, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Malnutrition; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879512038     PISSN: 12141178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17221/6/2013-pse     Document Type: Article

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