Plant breeding can be made more efficient by having fewer, better crosses

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Witcombe, John R ^a   Gyawali, Sanjaya ^b,d   Subedi, Madhu ^c,e   Virk, Daljit S ^a   Joshi, Krishna D ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Local Initiatives for Biodiversity   (Nepal)

^c LI BIRD   (Nepal)

^d AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

^e SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CROP; CROSS BREEDING; PHYSIOLOGY;

BREEDING; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CROSSES, GENETIC;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873340128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-22     Document Type: Article

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