Higher grain yield is a key objective in barley (Hordeum vulgare. L) breeding.
Despite extensive research on the genetics of yield and its components, selection for
yield per se is still the most extensively employed because of negative relationships
among components, modest correlations between yield and any particular component,
and...
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