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Plant Breeding and Genetics

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia

Journal

1984

Soil acidity

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Breeding Wheat Varieties For Acid Soils, I R. Barclay Jan 1984

Breeding Wheat Varieties For Acid Soils, I R. Barclay

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Wheat varieties with improved tolerance of acid soils cold increase yeilds be perhaps 20 per cent or more over a substantialarea ofWestern Australia's eastern wheatbelt.

Aluminium toxicity is probably the main cause of poor root growth and therefore reduced yields on these soils.

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