Dependence of grain weight of spring barley genotypes on traits of individual stems

Journal of Crop Improvement

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 223-233

  Gozdowski, Dariusz ^a   Kozak, Marcin ^a   Kang, Manjit S ^b   Wyszynski, Zdzislaw ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual spikes; Path analysis; Selection; Shoot length; Spike length; Structural equation modeling; Yield components

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986589665     PISSN: 15427528     EISSN: 15427536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J411v20n01_13     Document Type: Article

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