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PARENTAL VARIETY [1 record]

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Record 1 2025-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Agriculture - General
  • Silviculture
CONT

"Parent" varieties are paired to complement strengths and weaknesses and develop new cultivars with each parents' most desired characteristics. For example, one parent may be disease resistant but not crisp and the other parent may be crisp but not disease resistant.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Agriculture - Généralités
  • Sylviculture
CONT

Depuis quelques années, on observe un retour en force des céréales d'automne et plus récemment, la venue d'un nouveau joueur au Québec : le seigle hybride. Comme le maïs, il est issu d'un croisement de deux variétés parentales et offre, par rapport à un seigle d'automne régulier, une augmentation de rendement en grains de 32 % en moyenne [...]

Spanish

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