Combining, earliness, short anthesis to silking interval and yield based selection indices under intermittent water stress to select for drought tolerant maize

Australian Journal of Crop Science

Volumn 7, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2014-2020

  Ngugi, Kahiu ^a   Collins, Juma Ogeto ^a   Muchira, Sicily ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

ASI; Drought indices; Early maturity; Geometric mean production; Grain yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890197075     PISSN: 18352693     EISSN: 18352707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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