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Hybridization followed by continuous selection of lines of barley from different cross-combinations involving high protein-high lysine genotypes and the agronomically superior strains resulted in breaking the negative correlations between 1000 grain weight and high protein content and high DBC values. The methodology of DBC-Kjeldahl protein adopted in the present study is likely to be useful in identifying high lysine lines. The present study has shown considerable variability with respect to protein content and grain weight and has provided interesting genotypes which can be used in synthesising lines with improved nutritional quality and productivity in barley. The success in breaking the undesirable linkages to factors that impair the endosperm development is due to sufficient genetic variability in the initial breeding material as well as the use of suitable breeding procedures like the full-sib mating in the early segregating generations.
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Bansal, H.C., Singh, R.P., Bhaskaran, S. et al. Hybridization and selection for improving seed protein in barley. Theoret. Appl. Genetics 58, 129–136 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00263104
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