Assessment of maize hybrids

Maydica

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 63-70

  Koutsika Sotiriou, M S ^a   Karagounis, Ch A ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

General combining ability; Honeycomb breeding; Inbreeding depression; Specific combining ability

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 23844528208     PISSN: 00256153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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