Heritability estimates for winter hardiness in lentil under natural and controlled conditions

Plant Breeding

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 283-285

  Ali, A ^a   Johnson, D L ^b  

^a NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Pakistan)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Heritability; Lens culinaris; Transgressive segregation; Winter hardiness

Indexed keywords

COLD TOLERANCE; ENVIRONMENT; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HERITABILITY; LENTIL; PAKISTAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034126749     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0523.2000.00491.x     Document Type: Article

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