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Use of mid-parent values and progeny tests to increase the efficiency of potato breeding for combined processing quality and disease and pest resistance.
TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik - 1 Jun 2003
Bradshaw J E, Dale M F B, Mackay G R
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A potato breeding strategy is presented which avoids the common but ineffective practice of intense early-generation visual selection between seedlings in a glasshouse and spaced plants at a seed site. Once pair crosses have been made, progeny tests are used to discard whole progenies before star...
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