Role of physiology in improving crop adaptation to abiotic stresses in the tropics: The case of common bean and tropical forages

Handbook of Plant and Crop Physiology, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 583-614

  Rao, Idupulapati Madhusudana ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

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