Genetic gains in Nordic spring barley breeding over sixty years

Euphytica

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 283-289

  Ortiz, Rodomiro ^a   Nurminiemi, Minna ^b   Madsen, Sten ^a   Rognli, Odd Arne ^b   Bjørnstad, Åsmund ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Evolution; Grain yield; Hordeum vulgare; Nordic Region; Scandinavia

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; ERYSIPHALES; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE;

EID: 0036037771     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016302626527     Document Type: Article

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