Why no tetraploid cultivar of foxtail millet?

Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 227-230

  Ahanchede, Adam ^a   Poirier Hamon, Simone ^b   Darmency, Henri ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABOMEY CALAVI   (Benin)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Grain weight; Plant breeding; Setaria italica; Tetraploids

Indexed keywords

CROP IMPROVEMENT; PLANT BREEDING; YIELD;

ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS; SETARIA ITALICA; SETARIA VIRIDIS;

EID: 3242892868     PISSN: 09259864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:GRES.0000024020.91764.8d     Document Type: Article

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