Crop management to cope with global change: A systems perspective aided by information technologies

Crop Stress Management and Global Climate Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 172-190

  McMaster, G S ^a   Ascough, J C ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

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