The role of physiological understanding in plant breeding; From a breeding perspective

Field Crops Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-37

  Jackson, Phillip ^a   Robertson, Michael ^a   Cooper, Mark ^b   Hammer, Graeme ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breeding; Genotype by environment interaction; Indirect selection; Physiology; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030294895     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4290(96)01012-X     Document Type: Article

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