Variation in grain mass, grain nitrogen, and starch B-granule content within wheat heads

Cereal Chemistry

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 139-144

  Stoddard, F L ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHESIS; CULTIVAR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAIN; MASS; NITROGEN; PLANT BREEDING; STARCH; WHEAT;

GRANULATION; NITROGEN; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS; STARCH;

BREEDING PROGRAMMES; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRAIN MASS; GRAIN POSITIONS; INDIVIDUAL GRAINS; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; NITROGEN CONTENT; PROTEIN CONCENTRATIONS; SEEDLING VIGOR; STARCH GRANULES;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

NITROGEN; STARCH;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CULTIVAR; GRAIN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PARTICLE SIZE; PLANT SEED; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0032934939     PISSN: 00090352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/CCHEM.1999.76.1.139     Document Type: Article

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