Yield potential, plant assimilatory capacity, and metabolic efficiencies

Crop Science

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1584-1596

  Loomis, R S ^a   Amthor, J S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL PATHWAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYME KINETICS; GENETIC REGULATION; GLYCOLYSIS; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT METABOLISM; PLANT RESPIRATION; PLANT YIELD; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE;

EID: 0033394208     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci1999.3961584x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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