Relationships between relative water content and growth parameters under water stress in barley: A QTL study

New Phytologist

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-107

  Teulat, B ^a   Monneveux, P ^a   Wery, J ^a   Borries, C ^a   Souyris, I ^a   Charrier, A ^a   This, D ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Drought; Growth; Hordeum vulgare (barley); QTL; RWC

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030726985     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1997.00815.x     Document Type: Article

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