Evolutionary plant breeding in cereals-into a new era

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1944-1971

  Döring, Thomas F ^a   Knapp, Samuel ^b   Kovacs, Geza ^c   Murphy, Kevin ^d   Wolfe, Martin S ^a  

^a Hamstead Marshall   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c Department of Genetic Resources and Organic Plant Breeding ^*  (Hungary)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Composite cross populations; Diversity; Farm saved seed; Resilience

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855223899     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3101944     Document Type: Article

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