Environment characterization as an aid to wheat improvement: Interpreting genotype-environment interactions by modelling water-deficit patterns in North-Eastern Australia

Journal of Experimental Botany

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1743-1755

  Chenu, K ^a,b   Cooper, M ^b,d   Hammer, G L ^b   Mathews, K L ^c,e   Dreccer, M F ^c   Chapman, S C ^c  

^a Agri Science Queensland   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drought; environment classification; genotype environment interaction; modelling; water deficit; wheat

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; WHEAT;

DROUGHTS; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW SOUTH WALES; QUEENSLAND; TRITICUM; WATER;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 79952849576     PISSN: 00220957     EISSN: 14602431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erq459     Document Type: Article

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