Field phenotyping of soybean roots for drought stress tolerance

Agronomy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 418-435

  Fenta, Berhanu A ^a,b   Beebe, Stephen E ^c   Kunert, Karl J ^a   Burridge, James D ^d   Barlow, Kathryn M ^d   Lynch, Jonathan P ^d   Foyer, Christine H ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b ETHIOPIAN INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH   (Ethiopia)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll; Drought tolerance; Glycine max; Seed yield; Soybean nodules; Soybean roots

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937567056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734395     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/agronomy4030418     Document Type: Article

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