Potential benefits of foliar application of chitosan and Zinc in tomato

Subject Areas : Plant Physiology

Azam Salimi ¹ , Zahra Oraghi Ardebili ² , Maryam Salehibakhsh ³

1 - Department of Biology, Kharazmi University, Karaj, Iran
2 - Department of Biology,Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran
3 - Department of Biology, Kharazmi University, Karaj, Iran

Received: 2019-04-28 Accepted : 2019-04-28 Published : 2019-01-01

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