Relevance of specific versus general combining ability in winter wheat

Crop Science

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2494-2500

  Gowda, Manje ^a   Longin, C Friedrich H ^a   Lein, Volker ^b   Reif, Jochen C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b Saaten Union Recherche SAS   (France)

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EID: 84870251544     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: 14350653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2012.04.0245     Document Type: Article

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