A new maize heterotic pattern between temperate and tropical germplasms

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 917-923

  Fan, X M ^a   Chen, H M ^a   Tan, J ^a   Xu, C X ^a   Zhang, Y M ^b   Huang, Y X ^a   Kang, M S ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS   (China)

^b DEERE AND COMPANY   (United States)

^c PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CROPS; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; KRYPTON; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TROPICS;

AMERICAN SOCIETY; GENERAL COMBINING ABILITY (GCA); GENETIC DIVERSITIES; GERM PLASM; GERMPLASMS; GRAIN YIELD (GY); IN-FIELD; INTERNATIONAL (CO); KERNEL WEIGHT; MAIZE (ZEA MAYS L.); PATTERN CLASSIFICATIONS; SPECIFIC COMBINING ABILITY (SCA); UNITED STATES; YUNNAN , CHINA;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 47749154454     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2007.0298     Document Type: Article

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