Seed colour, seed weight and seed oil content in Linum usitatissimum accessions held by Plant Gene Resources of Canada

Plant Breeding

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 372-377

  Diederichsen, A ^a   Raney, J P ^a  

^a SASKATOON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Flax; Gene bank accessions; Linseed; Linum usitatissimum; Seed characters

Indexed keywords

LINUM USITATISSIMUM;

EID: 33748762547     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2006.01231.x     Document Type: Article

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