The drought environment: physical, biological and agricultural perspectives
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The drought environment: physical, biological and agricultural perspectives.
'Drought' has many meanings in relation to crop production. These range from: statistical (say, the lowest decile of annual rainfall) to a meteorologist; through yield being limited by too little water to an agronomist; to sudden severe water deficits to many molecular biologists. To a farmer, the corresponding management issues, respectively, are risk management (how best to manage a meteorolo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Botany
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0022-0957,1460-2431
DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erl212