Collocations of QTLs for seedling traits and yield components of tropical maize under water stress conditions

Crop Science

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1386-1392

  Ruta, Nathinee ^a   Stamp, Peter ^a   Liedgens, Markus ^a   Fracheboud, Yvan ^b   Hund, Andreas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77953944783     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2009.01.0036     Document Type: Article

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