Application of narrow sense canonical characters to cucumber breeding

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 16:30-34 (article 10) 1993 Hongwen Cui and Yongtao Qi Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural university, Yangling, Shaanxi, 712100, P.R. China; Beijing Vegetable Research Center, Beijing, 1000081, P.R. China Previous studies have shown that the correlation between heterosis of early yield in F1 hybrids and its associated component (ACT) traits was near […]

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Correlation Between Parents and F1 Progeny in Earliness Heterosis and the Estimation of Traits Limits of Parents

Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Report 15:13-16 (article 6) 1992 Hongwen Cui, Yongtao Qi, Jianhui Liu and Zhongbo Ren Department of Horticulture, Northwestern Agricultural University, Yangling, Shaanxi 172100, P.R. China Cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) is one of the important summer vegetables in China. There is an urgent requirement for early cultivars of cucumber for use in plastic […]

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