Fruit yield and yield component means and correlations of four slicing cucumber populations improved through six to ten cycles of recurrent selection

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 388-395

  Cramer, Christopher S ^a,b   Wehner, Todd C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cucumis sativus; Cucurbitaceae; Earliness; Fruit shape; Quantitative genetics; Vegetable breeding

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITACEAE; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0031900611     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.123.3.388     Document Type: Article

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