Evaluating plant breeding strategies by simulating gene action and dryland environment effects

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-113

  Chapman, Scott ^a   Cooper, Mark ^b,c   Podlich, Dean ^b,c   Hammer, Graeme ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c PIONEER HI BRED INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; GENES; OSMOSIS; TRANSPIRATION;

POSITIVE ALLELES;

AGRONOMY;

EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0037262224     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2003.0099     Document Type: Conference Paper

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