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Effectiveness of Recurrent Selection for General Combining Ability in Sweetclover, Melilotus officinalis 1
Author(s) -
Johnson I. J.
Publication year - 1952
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/agronj1952.00021962004400090006x
Subject(s) - melilotus , citation , agricultural experiment station , library science , state (computer science) , selection (genetic algorithm) , operations research , computer science , agronomy , agriculture , biology , mathematics , artificial intelligence , algorithm , ecology
METHODS used in the improvement of cross-pollinated forage crops very'largely have been based upon general principles developed from many years of research with maize. Obviously, the specific procedures in forages and maize breeding may be quite dissimilar, due to differences in length of life of the individual plant, occurrence of varying degrees of self-incompatibility, method of evaluation, and ultimate utilization of selected plants or lines. Certain of these differences may be advantageously used in breeding forage crops—particularly the perennial growth habit and self-incompatibility.