Developing Existing Plant Root System Architecture Models to Meet Future Agricultural Challenges

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 85, Issue , 2005, Pages 181-219

  Wu, L ^a   McGechan, M B ^a   Watson, C A ^a   Baddeley, J A ^a  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 28944449911     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2113(04)85004-1     Document Type: Article

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