Accelerated development of quality protein maize hybrid through marker-assisted introgression of opaque-2 allele

Plant Breeding

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 77-82

  Gupta, Hari S ^a,b   Raman, Babu ^a,c   Agrawal, Pawan K ^a   Mahajan, Vinay ^a,d   Hossain, Firoz ^b   Thirunavukkarasu, Nepolean ^b  

^a VPKAS   (India)

^b INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^c INTERNATIONAL MAIZE AND WHEAT IMPROVEMENT CENTER CIMMYT   (Mexico)

^d ICAR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MAIZE RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Maize hybrid; Marker assisted introgression; opaque 2; Quality Protein Maize; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84872660382     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbr.12009     Document Type: Article

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