Chapter 6 Strategies for Producing More Rice with Less Water

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 101, Issue , 2009, Pages e1-388

  Farooq, M ^a   Kobayashi, N ^b   Wahid, A ^a   Ito, O ^c   Basra, Shahzad M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^c JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Crop improvement; Food security; GCRPS; SRI; TE; Water productivity; WUE

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949089399     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2113(08)00806-7     Document Type: Review

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