Wheat root diversity and root functional characterization

Plant and Soil

Volumn 380, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 211-229

  Nakhforoosh, Alireza ^a   Grausgruber, Heinrich ^a   Kaul, Hans Peter ^a   Bodner, Gernot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Drought; Electrical capacitance; Spring wheat; Triticum spp; Water stress

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; DROUGHT STRESS; GENOTYPE; MOISTURE CONTENT; MORPHOLOGY; POLYPLOIDY; ROOT SYSTEM; ROOTING; SOIL WATER; TOPSOIL; WHEAT;

TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84903513873     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-014-2082-0     Document Type: Article

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