Should spring wheat breeding for organically managed systems be conducted on organically managed land?

Euphytica

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 239-252

  Reid, Todd A ^a   Yang, Rong Cai ^a   Salmon, Donald F ^b   Spaner, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ALBERTA AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heritability; Organic breeding; Organic management; Quantitative genetics; Spring wheat

Indexed keywords

ATTILA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 70349996076     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: 15735060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10681-009-9949-9     Document Type: Article

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