Success in Wheat Improvement

Wheat Science and Trade

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 387-395

  Rudd, Jackie C ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical estimation of genetic gain; Future perspectives; Genetic component of grain yield improvement; Success in wheat improvement; Wheat yield gains in light of other crops; World yield gains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876455490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780813818832.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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