Evaluation of Profitability of Seed Priming for Improvement Seed Germination Performance of Two Rangeland Plants (Festuca ovina and Bromus tomentellus) under Drought Conditions

Subject Areas : Eco-physiology

Hamdollah Eskandari ¹ , Ashraf Alizadeh Amraie ²

1 - Associate Professor, Department of Agriculture, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Department of Agriculture, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2016-10-20 Accepted : 2017-03-12 Published : 2017-10-01

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