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Plant breeding can be made more efficient by having fewer, better crosses

BACKGROUND: Crop yields have to increase to provide food security for the world’s growing population. To achieve these yield increases there will have to be a significant contribution from genetic gains made by conventional plant breeding. However, the breeding process is not efficient because cross...

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Autores principales: Witcombe, John R, Gyawali, Sanjaya, Subedi, Madhu, Virk, Daljit S, Joshi, Krishna D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23391262
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2229-13-22