Drought-tolerant corn hybrids yield more in drought-stressed environments with no penalty in non-stressed environments

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 7, Issue OCTOBER2016, 2016, Pages

  Adee, Eric ^a   Roozeboom, Kraig ^a   Balboa, Guillermo R ^a   Schlegel, Alan ^a   Ciampitti, Ignacio A ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn; Drought tolerant; Environment; Genotype; Management; Yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 84991709731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01534     Document Type: Article

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