Crop Breeding Methodologies: Classic and Modern

Breeding Major Food Staples

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 5-40

  Kang, Manjit S ^a   Subudhi, Prasanta K ^b   Baisakh, Niranjan ^b   Priyadarshan, P M ^c  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Rubber Research Institute of India   (India)

Author keywords

Breeding method; Crop breeding methodology; Hybridization; Pre mendelian breeding; Self pollinated crop

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951692160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470376447.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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