Seed production areas and seed consuming areas rarely coincide in this era of scientific agriculture and efficient transportation. That it is not necessary for the two to coincide is based on the premise that the performance of a plant is directly associated with its own genotype and not on conditions under which the seed was produced. McFadden (1963) has cast serious doubt on the validity of this premise with the discovery that the same variety of barley would produce different yields in the same yield trial if the seed were grown in different geographical locations. He found, for instance, that the variety Montcalm grown from seed produced at Guelph (Ontario) gave a higher yield than Montcalm grown from seed produced at Beaverlodge (Alberta), when planted the following year at Guelph (Ontario), Brandon (Manitoba), Lethbridge and Lacombe (Alberta). According to McFadden (1963), it would appear logical to select potentially suitable locations as seed increase centers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.115477 |
| Date | January 1964 |
| Creators | Faust, Noel. J. |
| Contributors | Brawn, R. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Agriculture.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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