GENETIC GAINS AND SELECTION ADVANCES OF THE UENF-14 POPCORN POPULATION1

Recurrent selection can generate successive gains for characters of economic interest without causing genetic narrowing in the population. However, it has rarely been used in breeding programs in popcorn, especially when using full-sibling progenies to generate more expressive gains. The objective o...

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Main Authors: AMANDA GONÇALVES GUIMARÃES, ANTÔNIO TEIXEIRA DO AMARAL, VALTER JÁRIO DE LIMA, JHEAN TORRES LEITE, CARLOS ALBERTO SCAPIM, MARCELO VIVAS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido 2018-01-01
Series:Revista Caatinga
Online Access:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=237158160002