Breeding for adaptation to heat and drought stress

Climate Change and Crop Production

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 71-91

  Reynolds, Matthew P ^a   Hays, Dirk ^b   Chapman, Scott ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

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