Field phenotyping strategies and breeding for adaptation of rice to drought

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 JUL, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Fischer, Ken S ^a   Fukai, Shu ^a   Kumar, Arvind ^b   Leung, Hei ^b   Jongdee, Boonrat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^c Ubon Rice Research Center   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Drought adaptation; Drought resistance traits; Phenotyping; Target population of environments; Water stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866544290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00282     Document Type: Review

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