Yield Improvement by Two Cycles of Mass Selection in Two Sweet Corn Populations |
Nigussie Mandefro
(Melkasa Agricultural Research Center)
Saleh Ghizan (Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia) Wahab Zakaria (Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia) Sinniah Uma Rani (Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia) |
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