Physiological and Morphological Responses of Almond Cultivars under In Vitro Drought Stress

Subject Areas : Microbiology

Ehsan Akbarpour ¹ , Ali Imani ² , Shahin Ferdowskhah Yeganeh ³

1 - Department of Horticulture, Hormozgan University, Hormozgan, Iran
2 - Temperate Fruit Research Center, Horticultural Research Institute, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran
3 - Training and Education Organization of Golestan Province, Gorgan, Iran

Received: 2017-05-17 Accepted : 2017-05-17 Published : 2017-05-01

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