Corn hybrid selection and climatic variability: Gambling with nature?

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 429-438

  Smit, Barry ^a   Blain, Robert ^a   Keddie, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; GENETIC SELECTION; GROWING SEASON; HYBRID; MAIZE; PLANT VARIETY;

ARABLE FARMING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORN PRODUCTION; HYBRID SELECTION;

CANADA, ONTARIO;

EID: 0031396554     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.1997.tb01325.x     Document Type: Article

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