Breeding crops for tolerance to salinity, waterlogging and inundation

Climate Change and Crop Production

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 92-114

  Mullan, Daniel J ^a   Barrett Lennard, Edward G ^b,c  

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

^b DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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