Role of macronutrients in plant growth and acclimation: Recent advances and future prospective

Improvement of Crops in the Era of Climatic Changes

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 197-216

  Kumar Chauhan, Devendra ^a   Kumar Tripathi, Durgesh ^b   Pratap Singh, Vijay ^c   Mohan Prasad, Sheo ^a   Dubey, Nawal Kishor ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Govt Ramanuj Pratap Singhdev Post Graduate College   (India)

Author keywords

Acclimation; Growth; Stresses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942044261     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-8824-8_8     Document Type: Chapter

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