Osmotic adjustment under drought conditions

Plant Responses to Drought Stress: From Morphological to Molecular Features

Volumn 9783642326530, Issue , 2012, Pages 199-229

  Sanders, Gregor J ^a   Arndt, Stefan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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