Contribution of genetic technology to soybean productivity-retrospect and prospect

Genetic Contributions to Yield Gains of Five Major Crop Plants

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 49-74

  Specht, James E ^a   Williams, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Agronomic technology; Cultivars; Genetic improvement; Hybridization breeding programs; Phenotypic variance; Regression analyses; Soybean productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102222993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2135/cssaspecpub7.c3     Document Type: Chapter

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