Development of the Wheat Plant

Wheat Science and Trade

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 31-55

  Mcmaster, Gregory S ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital technologies for wheat development; Environmental factors influencing shoot development; Integrating phenology, the shoot apex, and phytomers; Linking molecular biology and functional genomics to development; Morphological naming schemes; Nontemperature environmental factors; Scales of plant development

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349241340     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813818832.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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