Strategies to increase the yield and yield stability of crops under drought - Are we making progress?

Functional Plant Biology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1199-1206

  Turner, Neil C ^a   Blum, Abraham ^b   Cakir, Mehmet ^c   Steduto, Pasquale ^d   Tuberosa, Roberto ^e   Young, Neil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology Faculty of Sustainability Environmental and Life Sciences Murdoch University ^*  (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

agronomy; breeding; drought resistance; genomics; InterDrought; water limited conditions.

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; GENOMICS; PHENOTYPE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; PERTH [WESTERN AUSTRALIA]; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84907658914     PISSN: 14454408     EISSN: 14454416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/FP14057     Document Type: Conference Paper

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