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Morphological and agronomical diversity patterns in the Spanish barley core collection.
Hereditas - 1 Jan 2001
Lasa J M, Igartua E, Ciudad F J, Codesal P, García E V, Gracia M P, Medina B, Romagosa I, Molina-Cano J L, Montoya J L
Abstract excerpt
Seven thousand years of barley cultivation under the environmental hardships typical of the Mediterranean climate have generated genetic singularity of the Spanish barleys, consistently reported in the literature. From the Spanish National Collection of 2289 accessions, a core subset with 159 landraces and 16 old varieties was constituted. Twenty-seven characters were evaluated for the core collection, to define...
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