Inheritance of carbon isotope discrimination in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Euphytica

Volumn 150, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 97-106

  Rebetzke, G J ^a   Richards, R A ^a   Condon, A G ^a   Farquhar, G D ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breeding; Gen action; Heritability; Selection; Transpiration efficiency

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33748646583     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: 15735060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10681-006-9097-4     Document Type: Article

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