Inheritance of drought tolerance in maize

Cereal Research Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 285-291

  Farshadfar, E ^a   Afarinesh, A ^a   Sutka, J ^b  

^a RAZI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Gene action; Heritability; Maize; Osmoregulation; Stress tolerance index

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036920954     PISSN: 01333720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03543420     Document Type: Article

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