Adaptive plasticity of salt-stressed root systems

Ecophysiology and Responses of Plants under Salt Stress

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 169-201

  Rewald, Boris ^a   Shelef, Oren ^b   Ephrath, Jhonathan E ^b   Rachmilevitch, Shimon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4747-4_6     Document Type: Chapter

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