Assessment of the potential impacts of wheat plant traits across environments by combining crop modeling and global sensitivity analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Casadebaig, Pierre ^a   Zheng, Bangyou ^b   Chapman, Scott ^c   Huth, Neil ^b   Faivre, Robert ^a   Chenu, Karine ^c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; RAIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; CULTIVAR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT LEAF; PLANT YIELD; SOIL FERTILIZATION; SOWING; SOWING DATE; WHEAT; ADAPTATION; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AUSTRALIA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RAIN; TRITICUM;

EID: 84959180001     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146385     Document Type: Article

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