Root architecture and resource acquisition: Wheat as a model plant

Plant Roots: The Hidden Half, Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 313-330

  Manschadi, Ahmad M ^a   Manske, Günther G B ^b   Vlek, Paul L G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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