Article
Combining Ability for Resistance to Sclerotinia Head Rot in Sunflower
2004-09-01
Abstract excerpt
Sclerotinia head rot, caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (Lib.) de Bary, is a major disease in sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.). The development of hybrids with adequate genetic resistance is necessary to reduce yield losses caused by this disease. The objective of this study was to estimate the general (GCA) and specific (SCA) combining ability of a set of female and male oilseed sunflower inbred lines in hybrid...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b7e322d0-ae2f-5994-9389-35bea893799b
- DOI
- 10.2135/cropsci2004.1542
