Silicon: A beneficial nutrient under salt stress, its uptake mechanism and mode of action

Soil Science: Agricultural and Environmental Prospectives

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 287-301

  Khan, Waqas ud Din ^a,b   Aziz, Tariq ^a   Maqsood, Muhammad Aamer ^a   Sabir, M ^a   Ahmad, Hamaad Raza ^a   Ramzani, Pia Muhammad Adnan ^a   Naseem, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b GC UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Degraded soils; Salt stress; Silicon; Sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006488944     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-34451-5_12     Document Type: Chapter

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