Plant response to salt stress and role of exogenous protectants to mitigate salt-induced damages

Ecophysiology and Responses of Plants under Salt Stress

Volumn 9781461447474, Issue , 2013, Pages 25-87

  Hasanuzzaman, Mirza ^a,b   Nahar, Kamrun ^a,b   Fujita, Masayuki ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SHER E BANGLA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

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EID: 84949179541     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4747-4_2     Document Type: Chapter

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