Will selenium increase lentil (Lens culinaris Medik) yield and seed quality?

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Thavarajah, Dil ^a   Thavarajah, Pushparajah ^a   Vial, Eric ^b   Gebhardt, Mary ^b   Lacher, Craig ^c   Kumar, Shiv ^d   Combs, Gerald F ^c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GRAND FORKS HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Regional Office   (Morocco)

Author keywords

Biofortification; Fertilization; Lentil (Lens culinaris); Selenium; Selenoproteins; Yield increase

Indexed keywords

LENS CULINARIS;

EID: 84934874403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00356     Document Type: Article

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