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afs-72218	Karjalainen, Reijo	Spring wheat mixtures in northern crop production: ability of mixtures to buffer disease development and yield loss caused by Septoria nodorum 	1986	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4763	332	65	Index words: spring wheat, cultivar mixtures, yield stability, disease resistance, Seploria nodorum introduction Considerable theoretical and practical inter- est has been focused in recent years on the evaluation of genotypic mixtures in cereal crop production, and there is some evidence to support the idea that mixtures have several advantages over monocultures, such as greater stability of performance across diverse en- vironments (Jensen 1952, Simmonds 1962, Trenbath 1974) and more diverse and stable resistance to diseases (Jensen 1952, Borlaug 1958, Suneson 1960, Browning and Frey 1969). Therefore, the question arises whether cultivar mixtures can be used to reduce dis- ease progress and the yield losses caused by S. nodorum.	cache/afs-72218.pdf	txt/afs-72218.txt