Breeding Oilseed Brassica for Climate Change

Crop Adaptation to Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 448-463

  Salisbury, Phillip A ^a,b   Barbetti, Martin J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blackleg; Brassica carinata; Brassica juncea; Brassica napus; Brassica rapa; Canola Leptosphaeria maculans; Climate change; High CO2; High temperature; Moisture stress; Oilseed rape

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886509649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470960929.ch31     Document Type: Chapter

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