The physiological and biochemical responses of directly seeded and transplanted maize (Zea mays L.) supplied with plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) under water stress

Subject Areas : Stress Physiology

Saeed Rezazadeh ¹ , Mohammadnabi ilkaee ² , Fayaz Aghayari ³ , Farzad Paknejad ⁴ , Mehdi Rezaee ⁵

1 - Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
2 - Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
3 - Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
4 - Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
5 - Department of Horticulture, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran

Received: 2020-01-19 Accepted : 2020-01-19 Published : 2019-10-01

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