Development of novel chromosome doubling strategies for wheat x maize system of wheat haploid production

Plant Breeding

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 493-496

  Sood, S ^a   Dhawan, R ^a   Singh, K ^a   Bains, N S ^a  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Chromosome doubling; Colchicine treatment; Haploids; Triticum aestivum; Wheat x maize crosses

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0347660913     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2003.00894.x     Document Type: Article

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