Parental potential of sugarcane clones for drought resistance breeding

Sugar Tech

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-62

  Hemaprabha, G ^a   Nagarajan, R ^a   Alarmelu, S ^a   Natarajan, U S ^a  

^a SUGARCANE BREEDING INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cane yield; Co selections; Drought resistance breeding; Early vigour; Juice quality; Parents

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745776289     PISSN: 09721525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02943743     Document Type: Article

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