Nano-fertilizers for balanced crop nutrition

Nanotechnologies in Food and Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 69-80

  Subramanian, Kizhaeral S ^a   Manikandan, Angamuthu ^a   Thirunavukkarasu, Muthiah ^a   Rahale, Christopher Sharmila ^a  

^a TAMIL NADU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 84944222495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14024-7_3     Document Type: Chapter

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