Quality protein maize for nutritional security: rapid development of short duration hybrids through molecular marker assisted breeding

Current Science

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 230-237

  Gupta, H S ^a   Agrawal, P K ^a   Mahajan, V ^a   Bisht, G S ^a   Kumar, A ^a   Verma, P ^a   Srivastava, A ^a   Saha, S ^a   Babu, R ^a,b   Pant, M C ^a   Mani, V P ^a  

^a VPKAS   (India)

^b International Centre for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT)   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Marker assisted selection; Molecular breeding; Opaque2 gene; Quality protein maize

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 60649111066     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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