Relative growth rate, biomass allocation pattern and water use efficiency of three wheat cultivars during early ontogeny as dependent on water availability

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 493-504

  Van Den Boogaard, Riki ^a   De Boer, Miriam ^b   Veneklaas, Erik J ^b   Lambers, Hans ^c  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biomass allocation; Drought; Gas exchange; Relative growth rate; Triticum aestivum; Water use efficiency; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030498257     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1996.980309.x     Document Type: Article

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