Heterosis: Feeding People and Protecting Natural Resources

By D. Duvick. 2015

213 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Plant Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/45b11725ba56c43aa40c2477c4b0a6de6384faf2

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In Plant Science

1. Chenghai Yang
2. Sorin C. Popescu

Citations in the corpus

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for High-Throughput Phenotyping and Agronomic Research (2016, background): “…research has greatly improved crop yields over the last century; e.g., U.S. corn ( Zea mays L.) yield increased from 1.76 Mg ha -1 in 1900 to 10.6 Mg ha -1 in 2015 [4, 5] through conventional plant breeding and changes in agronomic practices [6], but gains in many crops have slowed [7, 8].”