Utilization of exotic germplasm in Nordic barley breeding and its consequences for adaptation

Euphytica

Volumn 92, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 267-273

  Veteläinen, Merja ^a,b   Nissilä, Eero ^c   Tigerstedt, P M A ^d   Von Bothmer, Roland ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Nordic Gene Bank   (Sweden)

^c Boreal Plant Breeding Ltd   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Agronomic performance; Barley; Breeding populations; Exotic germplasm; Hordeum vulgare

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030456752     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00022854     Document Type: Article

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