Overcoming chronic malnutrition in a future warming world: The key importance of mungbean and vegetable soybean

Euphytica

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 129-141

  Keatinge, J D H ^a   Easdown, W J ^a   Yang, R Y ^a   Chadha, M L ^b   Shanmugasundaram, S ^a  

^a AVRDC THE WORLD VEGETABLE CENTER   (Taiwan)

^b ICRISAT Campus   (India)

Author keywords

Malnutrition; Mungbean; Smallholder; Vegetable soybean

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE MAX; VIGNA RADIATA; VIGNA RADIATA VAR. RADIATA;

EID: 79957924610     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: 15735060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10681-011-0401-6     Document Type: Article

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