Climate-induced reduction in US-wide soybean yields underpinned by region-and in-season-specific responses

Nature Plants

Volumn 1, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Mourtzinis, Spyridon ^a   Specht, James E ^b   Lindsey, Laura E ^c   Wiebold, William J ^d   Ross, Jeremy ^e   Nafziger, Emerson D ^f   Kandel, Herman J ^g   Mueller, Nathan ^h   Devillez, Philip L ⁱ   Arriaga, Francisco J ^a   Conley, Shawn P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c Department of Horticulture and Crop Science ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^g NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84940693523     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nplants.2014.26     Document Type: Article

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