Claim · model-written summary
More recent cereal breeding objectives include increasing resistance to aphids and other pests.
- Taxon
- cerealt0
- Interactor
- aphidsAphidomorphae1pest
- Outcome
- increasing resistance to aphids and other pestse1
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Verbatim
t0“breeding cereal varieties”
e1“increasing resistance to aphids and other pests”
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 Cereal breeding in NW Europe has historically aimed at raising grain yields, increasing resistance to fungal attack and improving technological characteristics.
- 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.