Future-proof crops: challenges and strategies for climate resilience improvement

Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2016, Pages 47-56

  Kissoudis, Christos ^a   van de Wiel, Clemens ^a   Visser, Richard GF ^a   van der Linden, Gerard ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS;

EID: 84957651525     PISSN: 13695266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2016.01.005     Document Type: Review

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