Soil salinity and sodicity as particular plant/crop stress factors

Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress, Third Edition

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  Pessarakli, Mohammad ^a   Szabolcs, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

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