Seed Priming and Its Role in Mitigating Heat Stress Responses in Crop Plants

Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition - Tập 21 Số 2 - Trang 1718-1734 - 2021
Payal Chakraborty1, Padmanabh Dwivedi1
1Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

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