The method of maintenance breeding developed at the INF allows not only for keeping the cultivar but also for improvement of its important parameters.
Keeping monoeciousness is a result of both breeder efforts and rigorously run seed production process. High yield of fiber, characteristic for the Bia?obrzeskie cultivar, and stabilized monoeciousness is a result of: application of specific criteria of individual
plants selection and using the reserve method.
author: Przemyslaw Baraniecki, Institute of Natural Fibres (Poland)
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