Effect of Drought Stress Levels on Seedling Morpho-physiological Traits of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) Populations grown in Glasshouse

Subject Areas : Eco-physiology

Mehrnaz Riasat ¹ , Armin Saed-Mouchehsi ² , Ali Ashraf Jafari ³

1 - Department of Natural Resources, Fars Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Centre; Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO),
2 - Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University
3 - Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands; Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO)

Received: 2018-12-30 Accepted : 2019-07-24 Published : 2020-01-01

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