Tritordeum, wheat and triticale yield components under multi-local mediterranean drought conditions

Field Crops Research

Volumn 116, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 68-74

  Villegas, Dolors ^a   Casadesús, Jaume ^a   Atienza, Sergio G ^b   Martos, Vanessa ^c   Maalouf, Fouad ^d   Karam, Fadi ^e   Aranjuelo, Iker ^f   Nogués, Salvador ^f  

^a IRTA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE AGRICULTURA SOSTENIBLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d ICARDA   (Syrian Arab Republic)

^e Department of Irrigation and Agro Meteorology   (Lebanon)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Drought; Mediterranean conditions; Triticale; Tritordeum; Wheat

Indexed keywords

CROP YIELD; DROUGHT STRESS; GROWTH MODELING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER AVAILABILITY; WHEAT;

LEBANON; SPAIN; TUNISIA;

TRITICOSECALE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; X TRITORDEUM;

EID: 75249107277     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fcr.2009.11.012     Document Type: Article

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