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Variety × environment interactions in sugar beet variety trials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

J. L. Beckett
Affiliation:
National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge, CB3 OLE

Summary

The effects of a range of environmental factors on the performance of six varieties of sugar beet at 62 trial sites are considered with special reference to the identification of those environmental factors important in explaining observed variety × environment interactions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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