Impacts of drought and/or heat stress on physiological, developmental, growth, and yield processes of crop plants

Response of Crops to Limited Water: Understanding and Modeling Water Stress Effects on Plant Growth Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 301-355

  Prasad, P V V ^a   Staggenborg, S A ^a   Ristic, Z ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural productivity; Crop plant growth; Crop plant yield processes; Developmental processes; Drought stress impacts; Heat stress impacts; Physiological processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103017002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/advagricsystmodel1.c11     Document Type: Chapter

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