Soil fertility ‐ crop genotype associations and interactions¹

Contribution of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station and the United States Regional Pasture Research Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802. Authorized for publication on February 25, 1980, as paper number 5924 in the Journal Series.

Abstract

This paper discusses the opportunities to combine the efforts of plant geneticists and soil scientists to develop crop varieties adapted to the existing soil conditions and techniques used for production. Such research should result in improved varieties for the best as well as poorest of soil and production situations.

Key words:

• Mineral nutrition
• genetics

Notes

Contribution of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station and the United States Regional Pasture Research Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802. Authorized for publication on February 25, 1980, as paper number 5924 in the Journal Series.

Graduate Assistant in Agronomy, Adjunct Professor of Plant Breeding, and Professor of Soil Chemistry, respectively.