Evaluation of Caribbean maize accessions to develop a core subset

Crop Science

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1378-1386

  Taba, Suketoshi ^a   Diaz, Jaime ^a   Franco, Jorge ^b   Crossa, José ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^b CIMMYT ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC DIVERSITY; GERMPLASM; MODEL; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; SENESCENCE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031696604     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci1998.0011183X003800050037x     Document Type: Article

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