Fifty years of wheat breeding in Southern Brazil: yield improvement and associated changes Cinqüenta anos de melhoramento de trigo no Sul do Brasil: melhoramento na produção e mudanças associadas

The objective of this study was to assess the impact of genetic breeding on grain yield, and to identify the physiological traits associated to the increment in yield and their related growth processes, for wheat cultivars grown in Southern Brazil, in the past five decades. Seven wheat cultivars rel...

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Main Authors: Osmar Rodrigues, Julio César Barreneche Lhamby, Agostinho Dirceu Didonet, José Abramo Marchese
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Embrapa Informação Tecnológica 2007-06-01
Series:Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-204X2007000600008