Genetic and environmental controls of nitrogen use efficiency in barley ('Hordeum vulgare')

The aim of this thesis was to explore the physiological basis for differential yield characteristics of a barley QTL mapping population.  In 2002, 1.1 million tonnes of inorganic N fertiliser was applied in the UK, most of it to cereal crops.  Economic considerations aside, reduction of fertiliser a...

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Main Author: Irving, Louis John
Published: University of Aberdeen 2004
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.415531