Breeding strategies for improving plant resistance to diseases

Advances in Plant Breeding Strategies: Agronomic, Abiotic and Biotic Stress Traits

Volumn 2, Issue , 2016, Pages 561-599

  Miedaner, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backcross; Genomic selection; Marker assisted breeding; Pathogen monitoring; Qualitative resistance; Quantitative resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978221353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22518-0_15     Document Type: Chapter

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