Potassium application mitigates salt stress differentially at different growth stages in tolerant and sensitive maize hybrids

Plant Growth Regulation

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 111-125

  Abbasi, Ghulam Hasan ^a   Akhtar, Javaid ^b   Ahmad, Rafiq ^c   Jamil, Moazzam ^a   Anwar ul Haq, Muhammad ^b   Ali, Shafaqat ^d   Ijaz, Muhammad ^a  

^a THE ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY OF BAHAWALPUR   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^c Tobe Camp University Road Abbottabad   (Pakistan)

^d GOVERNMENT COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Antioxidant; Maize; Potassium; Proline; Salinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939939218     PISSN: 01676903     EISSN: 15735087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10725-015-0050-1     Document Type: Article

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