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Breeding programs: Meaning and significance of heritability in improvement of strains through genetics

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Everett R. Dempster, Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley

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California Agriculture 4(2):12-16.

Published February 01, 1950

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Principles of the science of genetics are becoming of increasing importance with respect to breeding programs designed to improve measurable economic characters, such as egg production.

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This is the eleventh article in a series of brief progress reports on the application of the science of genetics to commercial agriculture.

Breeding programs: Meaning and significance of heritability in improvement of strains through genetics

Everett R. Dempster
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Breeding programs: Meaning and significance of heritability in improvement of strains through genetics

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Authors

Everett R. Dempster, Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley

Publication Information

California Agriculture 4(2):12-16.

Published February 01, 1950

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Author Affiliations show

Abstract

Principles of the science of genetics are becoming of increasing importance with respect to breeding programs designed to improve measurable economic characters, such as egg production.

Full text

Full text is available in PDF.

Author notes

This is the eleventh article in a series of brief progress reports on the application of the science of genetics to commercial agriculture.


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