Physiological requirements for wheat ideotypes in response to drought threat

Acta Physiologiae Plantarum

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Rybka, Krystyna ^a   Nita, Zygmunt ^b  

^a PLANT BREEDING AND ACCLIMATIZATION INSTITUTE NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b Plant Breeding Company Strzelce   (Poland)

Author keywords

Drought; Phenomics; Triticum aestivum; Water use; Wheat

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84928798253     PISSN: 01375881     EISSN: 18611664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11738-015-1844-5     Document Type: Review

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