Breeding sunflower cultivars for the northern latitudes

Development of short season sunflower hybrids has been the main objective of the Canadian sunflower breeding program. A gene pool created with 50 lines extracted from USSR open-pollinated varieties provided a good source of early inbred lines. The gene pool produced the lines CM447, CM469 and CM497...

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Main Author: Walter Dedio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Scientific Agricultural Society of Finland 1988-03-01
Series:Agricultural and Food Science
Online Access:https://journal.fi/afs/article/view/72297