Root-based solutions to increasing crop productivity

Plant Roots: The Hidden Half, Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 295-312

  Watt, Michelle ^a   Wasson, Anton P ^a   Chochois, Vincent ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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