Role of secondary and putative traits for improvement of upland rice

Even though yield under stress is the primary trait for selection in breeding programmes for drought prone environments,low heritability of yield necessitates an alternative approach such as selection for secondary and putative traits. For asecondary or putative trait to be useful in a breeding prog...

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Main Author: A.Sheeba, P.Vivekanandan, S. Banumathy, R.Manimaran and G.V.Ramasubramanian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Indian Society of Plant Breeders 2010-07-01
Series:Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding
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Online Access:http://sites.google.com/site/ejpb10/vol-1-4-3/Vol-1-4-903-907.pdf?attredirects=0