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Predicting Disease Resistance in Synthetic Varieties of Alfalfa from Clonal Cross Data 1
Author(s) -
Pearson L. C.,
Elling L. J.
Publication year - 1960
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/agronj1960.00021962005200050017x
Subject(s) - biology , resistance (ecology) , plant disease resistance , agronomy , botany , microbiology and biotechnology , horticulture , genetics , gene
Synopsis For resistance to each of two diseases, bacterial wilt and common leafspot, synthetic variety performance essentially agreed with the average performance of all the crosses among the clones of which each synthetic was composed. There was no evidence of specific combining ability among the clonal crosses for either of these characters.