Progress in recurrent selection and in crossing cultivars with white clover resistant to the clover root-knot nematode meloidogyne trifoliophila

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 41-48

  Mercer, C F ^a   Van Den Bosch, J ^a   Miller, K J ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Breeding; Meloidogyne trifoliophila; Resistance; Root knot nematode; Screening; Selection; Trifolium repens; White clover

Indexed keywords

CROSSING; GENETIC CROSS; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; NEW ZEALAND; PEST RESISTANCE; RECURRENT SELECTION; ROOT GALL; SURVIVAL;

EMBRYOPHYTA; MELOIDOGYNE JAVANICA; MELOIDOGYNE TRIFOLIOPHILA; NEMATODA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM REPENS;

EID: 0033887165     PISSN: 00288233     EISSN: 11758775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288233.2000.9513407     Document Type: Article

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