Progress for testcross performance within the flint heterotic pool of a public maize breeding program since the onset of hybrid breeding

Euphytica

Volumn 215, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Hölker, Armin C ^a,b   Schipprack, Wolfgang ^a   Utz, H Friedrich ^a   Molenaar, Willem S ^a   Melchinger, Albrecht E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breeding progress; Doubled haploid lines; Flint heterotic pool; Founder lines; Maize landraces

Indexed keywords

EID: 85061665007     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: 15735060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10681-019-2370-0     Document Type: Article

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