Hybrid seed production in maize

Heterosis and Hybrid Seed Production in Agronomic Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2024, Pages 25-64

  Koutsika Sotiriou, Metaxia ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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DOI: 10.1201/9781003578451-2     Document Type: Chapter

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