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On some physiological attributes of transpiring surface in relation to drought resistance in sugarcane

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Lal, K.N., Mehrotra, O.N. Studies in crop physiology. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 32, 179–204 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03050167

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