Sugarcane genotypes differ in internal nitrogen use efficiency

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1122-1129

  Robinson, Nicole ^a   Fletcher, Andrew ^a   Whan, Alex ^a   Critchley, Christa ^a   Von Wirén, Nicolaus ^b   Lakshmanan, Prakash ^a,c   Schmidt, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c BSES LIMITED   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomass crop; Genetic variation; Glutamine synthetase; Plant breeding

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CROPS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); PROTEINS;

BIOMASS CROPS; GENETIC VARIATIONS; GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE; PLANT BREEDING; SUGARCANE GENOTYPES;

NITROGEN FERTILIZERS;

BIOMASS; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GRASS; NITROGEN; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT BREEDING;

SACCHARUM OFFICINARUM;

EID: 36448972297     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP07183     Document Type: Article

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