BRACE: A method for high throughput maize phenotyping of root traits for short-season drought tolerance

Crop Science

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 2996-3004

  Sharma, Santosh ^a   Carena, Marcelo J ^a  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84984905173     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: 14350653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2016.02.0116     Document Type: Article

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