Wheat spike fertility: Inheritance and relationship with spike yield components in early generations

Plant Breeding

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 264-270

  Martino, Diana L ^a,b,d   Abbate, Pablo E ^a   Cendoya, María G ^a   Gutheim, Florencia ^a,c   Mirabella, Nadia E ^a,b   Pontaroli, Ana C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b Universidad Provincial del Sudoeste   (Argentina)

^c CC 35   (Argentina)

^d Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto M Lillo   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Early selection; Genetic environmental interaction; Grain number; Spike dry weight; Yield improvement

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84930574588     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbr.12262     Document Type: Article

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