Abiotic stresses, constraints and improvement strategies in chickpea

Plant Breeding

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 163-178

  Jha, Uday C ^a   Chaturvedi, Sushil K ^a   Bohra, Abhishek ^a   Basu, Partha S ^a   Khan, Muhammad S ^b   Barh, Debmalya ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF PULSES RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^c Institute of Integrative Omics and Applied Biotechnology IIOAB   (India)

Author keywords

Chickpea breeding; Cold stress; Drought tolerance; QTLs; Salinity stress

Indexed keywords

CICER ARIETINUM;

EID: 84898058964     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbr.12150     Document Type: Review

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