Awns and glaucousness confer better performance of barley under drought stress conditions.
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No simple correlation was found between residual transpiration rates and the level of glaucousness among glaucous lines.
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Biosynthesis of β-diketones in wheat and their implications in glaucousness formation and drought and heat tolerance were discussed.
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