Genetic gains in agronomic and selected end-use quality traits over a century of plant breeding of Canada western red spring wheat

Cereal Chemistry

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 537-543

  Hucl, Pierre ^a   Briggs, Connie ^a   Graf, Robert J ^b,c   Chibbar, Ravindra N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Viterra   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; PLANTS (BOTANY);

20TH CENTURY; END-USE QUALITIES; FARINOGRAPHS; GENETIC GAIN; PLANT BREEDING; RATE OF CHANGE; SASKATCHEWAN; SPRING WHEAT; WHEAT (TRITICUM AESTIVUM L.); WHEAT CULTIVARS;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84948702977     PISSN: 00090352     EISSN: 19433638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/CCHEM-02-15-0029-R     Document Type: Article

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