Physiological responses and yield of wheat plants in zinc-mediated alleviation of drought stress

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Ma, Dongyun ^a   Sun, Dexiang ^a   Wang, Chenyang ^a   Ding, Huina ^a   Qin, Haixia ^a   Hou, Junfeng ^a   Huang, Xin ^a   Xie, Yingxin ^a   Guo, Tiancai ^a  

^a HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drought; Grain yield; Physiological responses; Wheat; Zinc fertilizer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021070436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00860     Document Type: Article

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