Breeding potential of European flint and earliness-selected U.S. corn belt dent maize populations

Crop Science

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1475-1481

  Moreno Gonzalez, J ^a   Ramos Gourcy, F ^b   Losada, E ^a  

^a Centro de Investigacions Agrarias de Mabegondo   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE AGUASCALIENTES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0030780035     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci1997.0011183X003700050010x     Document Type: Article

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