Hybrid maize breeding with doubled haploids. IV. Number versus size of crosses and importance of parental selection in two-stage selection for testcross performance

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 251-260

  Wegenast, Thilo ^a   Longin, C Friedrich H ^a   Utz, H Friedrich ^a   Melchinger, Albrecht E ^a   Maurer, Hans Peter ^a   Reif, Jochen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROFLUIDICS;

BREEDING PROGRAMS; DOUBLED HAPLOID LINE (DHL); MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.); MAIZE BREEDING; OPTIMUM ALLOCATION; TWO STAGES;

FOOD PRODUCTS;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CROSS BREEDING; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; HYBRIDIZATION; MAIZE;

BREEDING; CROSSES, GENETIC; GENOTYPE; HAPLOIDY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; SELECTION (GENETICS); ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 46249128335     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-008-0770-y     Document Type: Article

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