Vigorous Crop Root Systems: Form and Function for Improving the Capture of Water and Nutrients

Crop Physiology: Applications for Genetic Improvement and Agronomy

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 309-325

  Palta, Jairo ^a   Watt, Michelle ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

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EID: 85135250049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374431-9.00013-X     Document Type: Chapter

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