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Micro‐Press for Cytological Preparations 1
Author(s) -
Larter E. N.,
Ikonen H.
Publication year - 1977
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/cropsci1977.0011183x001700040051x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , biology , computer science
Four methods are presented for calculating the number of plants needed, with a specified high probability, to recover a given number of plants possessing a trait, given that the trait occurs with a known probability. problem often faced by a plant breeder is how A many plants should be raised to be 95% (for example) sure of recovering one or more plants exhibiting the trait, given that a trait has a known probabili t y of occurrence in a population. Method I . This problem centers on solving for n, the inequality: