Article
Insights and Innovations from Wide Crosses: Examples from Canola and Tomato
2007-12-01
Abstract excerpt
Wild relatives and unadapted forms of crop plants are important reservoirs of allelic variation that can be accessed through wide crosses for improvement of crop plants. In this paper, we describe insights and innovations from the use of wide crosses to transfer favorable alleles from wild or unadapted forms of two crops: canola (oilseed Brassica napus L.) and tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.). The canola res...
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- Literature Corpus work
- bdc14c14-f1a8-555f-baf1-b9ac23527771
- DOI
- 10.2135/cropsci2007.04.0012ipbs
