Adapting and improving crops: The endless task

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1356, 1997, Pages 901-906

  Evans, L T ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP YIELD; FOOD DEMAND; FOOD SUPPLY; RESEARCH NEED; YIELD POTENTIAL;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0030793392     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0069     Document Type: Article

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