Relative importance of per se and topcross performance in the selection of popcorn S3 families

Crop Breeding and Applied Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-81

  Viana, José Marcelo Soriano ^a   Condé, Aurinelza Batista Teixeira ^a   De Almeida, Ramon Vinícius ^a   Scapim, Carlos Alberto ^b   Valentini, Lúcia ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

^c EMPRESA DE PESQUISA AGROPECUÁRIA DO ESTADO DO RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Inbred families; Testcross; Topcross

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849133929     PISSN: 15187853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12702/1984-7033.v07n01a11     Document Type: Article

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