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International Journal of Agronomy
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 754658, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/754658
Research Article

Diversity in Drought Traits among Commercial Southeastern US Peanut Cultivars

Mura Jyostna Devi and Thomas R. Sinclair

Crop Science Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA

Received 13 August 2011; Accepted 12 September 2011

Academic Editor: David Clay

Copyright © 2011 Mura Jyostna Devi and Thomas R. Sinclair. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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