Forty-eight years of rice improvement in Texas since the release of cultivar bluebonnet in 1944

Crop Science

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2097-2106

  Tabien, Rodante E ^a   Samonte, Stanley Omar Pb ^a   McClung, Anna M ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

HEMEROCOETES MACROPHTHALMUS; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 57149084683     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2007.12.0680     Document Type: Article

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