The residual background genome from a donor within an improved line selected by marker-assisted selection: Impact on phenotype and combining ability

Plant Breeding

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 429-435

  Wang, L ^a,b   Zhang, Z ^b   Wei, L ^b   Zhang, D ^b   Teng, F ^a   Tao, Y ^b   Zheng, Y ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEBEI   (China)

Author keywords

Background selection; Combining ability; Maize; Marker assisted selection

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 70350462791     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0523.2008.01611.x     Document Type: Article

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