Classifying maize inbred lines into heterotic groups using a factorial mating design

Agronomy Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 106-112

  Fan, X M ^a   Zhang, Y M ^b   Yao, W H ^a   Chen, H M ^a   Tan, J ^a   Xu, C X ^a   Han, X L ^a   Luo, L M ^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

GENERAL COMBINING ABILITIES; INBRED LINES; MAIZE BREEDINGS; MAIZE HYBRIDS; MOLECULAR METHODS; NOVEL METHODS; SIMPLE SEQUENCE REPEATS; SPECIFIC COMBINING ABILITIES; ZEA MAYS L.;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 58149507024     PISSN: 00021962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/agronj2008.0217     Document Type: Article

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