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In breeding cultivars for a sustainable agriculture the identification of morphological traits conferring drought resistance may be an useful tool in screening germplasm. Traits conferring adaptation to drought need to be highly penetrant also in not limiting conditions such as those under which germplasm is generally evaluated. In this research morphological adaptations induced in seedling leaves by drought stress were investigated under controlled conditions.
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Negri, V., Falcinelli, M. (1994). Morphological Adaptation to Drought of Different Populations of Lolium Perenne L.. In: Rognli, O.A., Solberg, E., Schjelderup, I. (eds) Breeding Fodder Crops for Marginal Conditions. Developments in Plant Breeding, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0966-6_38
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