Root traits and phenotyping strategies for plant improvement

Plants

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 334-355

  Paez Garcia, Ana ^a   Motes, Christy M ^a   Scheible, Wolf Rüdiger ^a   Chen, Rujin ^a   Blancaflor, Elison B ^a   Monteros, Maria J ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiotic stress; Breeding; Phenotyping; Root; Root breeding; Root ideotype; Root plasticity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992416072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22237747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/plants4020334     Document Type: Review

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