Plant breeders' perspectives on improving yield and quality traits in horticultural food crops

HortScience

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 20-22

  Luby, James J ^a   Shaw, Douglas V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Genetic correlation; Multiple trait selection; Phenotypic correlation

Indexed keywords

EID: 58849138843     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.44.1.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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