Moderate drought stress affected root growth and grain yield in old, modern and newly released cultivars of winter wheat

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Fang, Yan ^a,b   Du, Yanlei ^a,b,c   Wang, Jun ^a   Wu, Aijiao ^a,b   Qiao, Sheng ^a   Xu, Bingcheng ^a,b   Zhang, Suiqi ^a,b   Siddique, Kadambot H M ^d   Chen, Yinglong ^a,b,d  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Drought stress; Root length density; Root mass; Semi arid Loess Plateau; Triticum aestivum

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019569430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00672     Document Type: Article

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