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Abhimanyu Kumar1, Om Prakash Pandey2

  • 1Department of Electrical and Instrumentation Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala 147004, Punjab, India.

Journal of Theoretical Biology
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PubMed

Keywords:
Electric/magnetic fieldsHigh voltage transmission lineSeed germination

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