Selection for large seed and high protein in two- and three-parent soybean populations

Crop Science

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1876-1881

  Alt, Brian J ^a   Fehr, Walter R ^a   Welke, Grace A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMBRYOPHYTA; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 0036889256     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2002.1876     Document Type: Article

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