Genetic improvement rates of short-season soybean increase with plant population

Crop Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1029-1034

  Cober, Elroy R ^a   Morrison, Malcolm J ^a   Ma, Baoluo ^a   Butler, Gail ^a  

^a AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

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EMBRYOPHYTA; GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 18744371311     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2004.0232     Document Type: Article

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