Developing a tall durum wheat plant type for semi-arid, Mediterranean cereal-livestock farming systems

Field Crops Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-164

  Annicchiarico, Paolo ^a,b   Pecetti, Luciano ^a,b  

^a Intl Ctr for A R in the D A   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Durum wheat; Grain yield; Ideotype; Plant height; Straw yield; Sustainable farming

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FARMS; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); PLANTS (BOTANY);

FARMING SYSTEMS;

CROPS;

CROP PERFORMANCE; PLANT BREEDING; SEMIARID REGION; WHEAT; YIELD;

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

ANIMALIA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; TRITICUM TURGIDUM SUBSP. DURUM;

EID: 0037454901     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4290(02)00173-9     Document Type: Article

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