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The production of pure stocks of self‐pollinating cereal varieties
Author(s) -
HANSON PETER
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
annals of applied biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1744-7348
pISSN - 0003-4746
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-7348.1973.tb01315.x
Subject(s) - biology , multiplication (music) , pollination , agronomy , stock (firearms) , botany , mathematics , engineering , pollen , mechanical engineering , combinatorics
SUMMARY The method of cereal pure stock production used at the Plant Breeding Institute is described. Multiplication from fifty plants to commercial seed stocks takes 5 years; individual ears are inspected each year and an ear‐row/ear‐row progeny system is used. An accelerated system reducing the period of multiplication to 4 years is also described. The advantages and disadvantages of other multiplication methods are discussed.