Requirements for success in marker-assisted breeding for drought-prone environments

Advances in Molecular Breeding Toward Drought and Salt Tolerant Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 479-500

  Passioura, J B ^a   Spielmeyer, W ^a   Bonnett, D G ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

breeders markers; harvest index; Marker assisted breeding; transpiration efficiency; water limited environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888197534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5578-2_19     Document Type: Chapter

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