Breeding technologies to increase crop production in a changing world

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5967, 2010, Pages 818-822

  Tester, Mark ^a   Langridge, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD QUALITY; GENETIC VARIATION; GERMPLASM; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

ASTRONOMY; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD; FOOD SECURITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GERMPLASM; INVESTMENT; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY;

AGRICULTURE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 76749109506     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1183700     Document Type: Review

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