Improvement of soybean cultivars for natto production through the selection of seed morphological and physiological characteristics and seed compositions: A review

Plant Breeding

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 131-139

  Escamilla, Diana M ^a   Rosso, Maria L ^b   Holshouser, David L ^b   Chen, Pengyin ^c   Zhang, Bo ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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EID: 85061307670     PISSN: 01799541     EISSN: 14390523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pbr.12678     Document Type: Review

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