FIELD: agriculture, in particular selection of barley and other cereal crops.
SUBSTANCE: method involves selecting basic parental forms; hybridizing; selecting lines for drought-resistance; evaluating said lines. Elite seeds are selected among hybrid populations grown from seeds preliminarily exposed to gamma-beams at dose of 1.0 kgG/min.
EFFECT: enhanced reliability in selecting of lines for creating sorts resistant to strains and other adverse growing conditions.
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