Approaches to rationalising selection of test environments for on-farm lentil variety trials in Mediterranean rainfed cropping systems

Australian Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 335-341

  Sarker, A ^a   Singh, M ^a   El Ashkar, F ^b   Erskine, W ^a   De Pauw, E ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IN THE DRY AREAS ICARDA   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^b General Commission for Scientific Agricultural Research GCSAR   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

Clustering; Location; Yield

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; CROP YIELD; CROPPING PRACTICE; CULTIVAR; GENOTYPE; LEGUME; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RAINFED AGRICULTURE;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC;

LENS CULINARIS;

EID: 34248524177     PISSN: 00049409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/AR05418     Document Type: Article

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