Recovery of superior homozygous progeny from biparental crosses and backcrosses

Crop Science

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 558-563

  Isleib, T G ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BACKCROSSING; GERMPLASM; HOMOZYGOSITY; PLANT BREEDING;

EID: 0032958884     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci1999.0011183X003900020042x     Document Type: Article

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