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Developing drought- and low N-tolerant maize : proceedings of a symposium, March 25-29, 1996, CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico

Edmeades, G.O.

Developing drought- and low N-tolerant maize : proceedings of a symposium, March 25-29, 1996, CIMMYT, El Batan, Mexico - Mexico : CIMMYT, 1997. - x, 566 pages - Printed Computer File

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Proceedings of a symposium hosted at CIMMYT in 1996, this publication describes the incidence and intensity of drought and low nitrogen conditions for maize in the tropics, the physiology of drought tolerance and the identification of secondary traits, breeding for drought tolerance, the performance of maize under low nitrogen conditions and breeding for tolerance, general considerations for stress breeding designs and software for experiments in stressed environments, germplasm sources of drought tolerance, and modelling and geographic information system studies


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968-6923-93-4


Conferences
Maize
Nitrogen
Plant breeding
Selection
Injurious factors
Stress
Drought resistance
Plant physiology
Crop losses
Simulation models

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