Improvement of wheat (Triticum aestivum) drought tolerance by seed priming with silicon

Archives of Agronomy and Soil Science

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 299-315

  Ahmed, Mukhtar ^a,b   Qadeer, Umara ^a   Ahmed, Zammurad Iqbal ^a   Hassan, Fayyaz Ul ^c  

^a PMAS ARID AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Physics   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

epicuticular wax; leaf membrane stability index; proline contents; relative water contents

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948571621     PISSN: 03650340     EISSN: 14763567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03650340.2015.1048235     Document Type: Article

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