Toward the genetic improvement of drought tolerance in crops

Japan Agricultural Research Quarterly

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 1-10

  Nakashima, Kazuo ^a   Suenaga, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental stress tolerance; International collaboration

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012035001     PISSN: 00213551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6090/jarq.51.1     Document Type: Article

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