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Correlated Inheritance with Special Reference to Disease Resistance in Spring Wheat 1
Author(s) -
Kulkarni Laxman G.
Publication year - 1934
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1934.00021962002600100010x
Subject(s) - advice (programming) , inheritance (genetic algorithm) , rust (programming language) , stem rust , agricultural experiment station , resistance (ecology) , library science , biology , agronomy , genetics , computer science , ecology , gene , agriculture , programming language
The plant breeder is interested primarily in the improvement of varieties of crop plants and for this purpose a knowledge of the manner of inheritance of different characters and their relations to each other is of vital importance. The investigation described here was undertaken with a threefold purpose. First, to study with spring wheat the inheritance of field reaction to stem rust in a cross between a highly resistant and a highly susceptible variety. Second, to determine to what extent different types of rust reaction affect the shrivelling of the grain. Third, to learn the homozygosity of varieties as tested by their greenhouse reaction to physiologic forms 21 and 36.