Plant Responses to Hyperarid Desert Environments

@inproceedings{ElGhani2017PlantRT,  title={Plant Responses to Hyperarid Desert Environments},  author={Ph.D. Monier M. Abd El-Ghani and Dr. Francisco Mart{\'i}n Huerta-Mart{\'i}nez and Hongyan Liu and Rahmatullah Qureshi},  booktitle={Cambridge International Law Journal},  year={2017},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:3277128}}

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