Use of wheat cultivar blends to improve grain yield and quality and reduce disease and lodging

Field Crops Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 261-269

  Jackson, L F ^a   Wennig, R W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultivar blends; Grain quality; Grain yield; Leaf diseases; Lodging; Triticum aestivum; Wheat

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030852838     PISSN: 03784290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4290(97)00007-5     Document Type: Article

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