Optimum allocation of test resources and comparison of breeding strategies for hybrid wheat

Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2117-2126

  Longin, C Friedrich H ^a   Mi, Xuefei ^a   Melchinger, Albrecht E ^a   Reif, Jochen C ^b   Würschum, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL; CURRENT SITUATION; DOUBLED HAPLOID LINES; GENERAL COMBINING ABILITIES; MODEL CALCULATIONS; OPTIMUM ALLOCATION; SEED PRODUCTION; WHEAT BREEDING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYBRIDIZATION; PLANT SEED; WHEAT;

BREEDING; CROSSES, GENETIC; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; SEEDS; TRITICUM;

EID: 84929509171     PISSN: 00405752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00122-014-2365-0     Document Type: Article

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