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Wide hybridization and cereal improvement

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The search for advantageous genes to improve the nutritional quality and increase the total yield potential of cereals and other crops has led to introgressive and interspecific hybridization of many cultivars with their wild relatives. Wider intergeneric hybrids are now of immense interest. Solutions to two “absolute” barriers have yielded grudgingly only to biochemical intervention.

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Bates, L.S., Deyoe, C.W. Wide hybridization and cereal improvement. Econ Bot 27, 401–412 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02860693

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