Computer Simulation in Plant Breeding

Advances in Agronomy

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 219-264

  Li, Xin ^a   Zhu, Chengsong ^a   Wang, Jiankang ^b   Yu, Jianming ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Association mapping; Breeding method; Climate change; Computer simulation; Crop modeling; Genome wide selection; Genomic selection; Marker assisted selection; Plant breeding; QTL mapping; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859738718     PISSN: 00652113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394277-7.00006-3     Document Type: Chapter

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