Salt Stress and tolerance mechanisms by plants: A Review

Subject Areas : Stress Physiology

REYAZ  MIR ¹ (Department of Botany, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar-608 002, Tamil Nadu, India)
Ramamurthy  Somasundaram ² (Department of Botany, Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar-608 002, Tamil Nadu, India)

Received: 2021-08-18 Accepted : 2023-06-13 Published : 2023-08-01

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