Ten cycles of recurrent selection for fruit yield, earliness, and quality in three slicing cucumber populations

Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 362-366

  Wehner, Todd C ^a   Cramer, Christopher S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cucumis sativus; Fruit shape; Quantitative genetics; Vegetable breeding; Yield

Indexed keywords

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 1842326479     PISSN: 00031062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/jashs.121.3.362     Document Type: Article

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