Twenty-seven cycles of divergent mass selection for ear length in maize

Crop Science

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1099-1107

  Lopez Reynoso, Jose De Jesus ^a   Hallauer, Arnel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA CHAPINGO   (Mexico)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENOTYPE; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0031818044     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci1998.0011183X003800040035x     Document Type: Article

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