Breeding, genetics, and cultivars

Tall Fescue for the Twenty-First Century

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 337-366

  Hopkins, A A ^a   Saha, M C ^a   Wang, Z Y ^a  

^a PLANT BIOLOGY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultivar development; Endophyte; Genetic variation; Heritability; Plant breeding; Tall fescue breeding procedures; Tall fescue cultivar; Tall fescue genetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102330665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr53.c19     Document Type: Chapter

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