Novel germplasm resources for improving environmental stress tolerance of hexaploid wheat

Crop Science

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1255-1265

  Trethowan, Richard M ^a   Mujeeb Kazi, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING NIBGE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEGILOPS TAUSCHII; AEGILOPS TAUSCHII X TRITICUM TURGIDUM; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 41149097745     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2007.08.0477     Document Type: Review

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