Screening of bread wheat genotypes for drought tolerance using phenotypic and proline analyses

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue AUG2016, 2016, Pages

  Mwadzingeni, Learnmore ^a,b   Shimelis, Hussein ^a   Tesfay, Samson ^a   Tsilo, Toi J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b ARC Small Grain Institute   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agronomic traits; Drought tolerance; Proline accumulation; Water stress; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984612016     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01276     Document Type: Article

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