Claim · model-written summary
Cereal breeding in NW Europe has historically aimed at raising grain yields, increasing resistance to fungal attack and improving technological characteristics.
- Taxon
- Cereale1
- Outcome
- raising grain yields, increasing resistance to fungal attack and improving technological characteristicse1
- Setting
- NW Europee1
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Verbatim
e1“Cereal breeding in NW Europe has historically been directed at raising grain yields, increasing resistance to fungal attack and improving technological characteristics”
Title
Aims and objectives in breeding cereal varieties
L A J Slootmaker Outlook on Agriculture 1974. doi:10.1177/003072707400800304
Other claims from this paper (3)
- Observation More recent cereal breeding objectives include minimizing unwanted waste straw and increasing the efficiency of applied fertilizer nitrogen use.
- Observation More recent cereal breeding objectives include reducing plant sensitivity to cold and to high soil acidity.
- Observation More recent cereal breeding objectives include increasing resistance to aphids and other pests.