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Performance of Hybrids Between Divergent Types of Big Bluestem and Sand Bluestem in Relation to Improvement 1
Author(s) -
Newell L. C.,
Peters LeRoy V.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
crop science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.76
H-Index - 147
eISSN - 1435-0653
pISSN - 0011-183X
DOI - 10.2135/cropsci1961.0011183x000100050022x
Subject(s) - crop , agricultural experiment station , relation (database) , citation , hybrid , library science , biology , horticulture , agronomy , agriculture , computer science , database , ecology
TMPROVEMENT in any crop depends on the breadth of -*• variation available for manipulation. Possibilities for the development of varieties of bluestem superior in seed and forage characteristics are greatly enhanced by considering together big bluestem and sand bluestem, two of the important tall grasses of the prairies and plains. Hybrids have been obtained by crossing clones of diverse genotype selected from the taxonomic groups comprising big bluestem, Andropogon gerardi Vitman, and sand bluestem, A. hallii Hack. That these groups freely intercross has been established in a previous paper (3).