Heterosis and Hybrid Seed Production in Agronomic Crops
Publisher: Food Products Press
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781560228769
Subjects: Agricultural science; Biotechnology; Seed technology; Agricultural Biotechnology; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Agriculture - Agronomy; Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics; Agriculture - General; Heterosis
First sentence: The earliest scientific documentation of increase in vigor and productivity of plants as a result of hybridization came from the studies made by Koelreuter (1766) on interspecific crosses in Nicoliana, Dianthus, Verbascum, Datura and other genera.