Using self-compatible inbreds of broccoli as seed producers

HortScience

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-87

  Farnham, Mark W ^a   Harrison, Howard F ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brassica oleracea; Broccoli sprouts; Doubled haploids

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGENS; GENES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SEED;

BROCCOLI;

CROPS;

BRASSICA; BRASSICA OLERACEA; BRASSICA OLERACEA VAR. BOTRYTIS;

EID: 0037295243     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.38.1.85     Document Type: Article

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