Improving Tolerance to Abiotic Stresses in Staple Crops: A Random or Planned Process?

Plant Breeding: The Arnel R. Hallauer International Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 293-309

  Edmeades, Gregory ^a   Bänziger, Marianne ^a   Campos, Hugo ^a   Schussler, Jeffrey ^a  

^a Pioneer Hi Bred International ^*  (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Abiotic stresses; Managed stress environments; Multienvironment trials; Staple crops; Target population of environments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889405418     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470752708.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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