Cold and heat tolerance

Alfalfa and Alfalfa Improvement

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 259-302

  McKenzie, James S ^a   Paquin, Roger ^a   Duke, Stanley H ^b  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Cold tolerance; Genetic engineering; Heat tolerance; Morphological variations

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102999874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr29.c8     Document Type: Chapter

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