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02 Nov Hybrid breeding could improve lentil yields

Posted at 17:38h in Agronomy

New Australian research shows that lentil crop improvement through a combination of hybrids and hybrid mimics could be used to substantially boost yields as high as 50 per cent greater than commercial varieties. Hybrid vigour or heterosis can be generated in a wide variety of...

03 Oct Correlating root length to pea and lentil yield

Posted at 16:21h in Agronomy

Pea and lentil root lengths and depths were assessed as a breeding tool for cultivar selection. In field pea, the highest yielding cultivars were intermediary in both total root length and the proportion of root length found below 12 inches (30 cm) in the soil....