Pre-breeding of lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) for herbicide resistance through seed mutagenesis.

Lentil is a poor competitor of weeds and its sensitivity to herbicides is a major hurdle for large scale production. The present study was conducted to select herbicide resistant lentil genotypes through seed mutagenesis. Seeds of three advanced lentil genotypes (LPP 11001, LPP 11100 and LPP 11116)...

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Main Authors: Muhammad Rizwan, Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Jawad Asghar, Ghulam Abbas, Tariq Mahmud Shah, Hussein Shimelis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5308809?pdf=render