Maize water content and solute potential at three stages of development

Maydica

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-72

  Wassom, J J ^a   Reese, R N ^b   Schumacher, T E ^b   Wicks III, Z W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Development stage; Maize; Water stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034071519     PISSN: 00256153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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