Drought tolerance of barley varieties in relation to their root system size

Plant Breeding

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 630-636

  Chloupek, O ^a   Dostal V ^a   Streda T ^a   Psota, V ^b   Dvorackova O ^c  

^a MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^b Research Institute of Brewing and Malting   (Czech Republic)

^c National Plant Variety Office   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Barley; Drought; Electrical capacitance; Grain quality; Methods; Root system size; Varieties; Yield

Indexed keywords

HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 78649565967     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2010.01801.x     Document Type: Article

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