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Advanced agricultures are characterized by a great increase in the adoptation of uniform crop cultivars associated with a drastic reduction in locally adapted variation, the plant breeders should also examine means of creating and conserving genetic resources. Composite cross breeding is a technique that creates and preserves genetic variation in an exploitable form. The merits and problems of this method were discussed. using data obtained from barley Composite Cross XXI.
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Mak, C., Harvey, B.L. Exploitable genetic variation in a composite bulk population of barley. Euphytica 31, 85–92 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00028309
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