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Chinese high yield cultivars generally had poor bread making and noodle making quality
before 1990. At present, the national program gives priority to bread making quality; each
year a large number of crosses in Zones I and II are made between lines with good bread
making quality characters and high yielding Chinese cultivars to develop cultivars combining
early maturity, multiple disease resistance, good quality, and high yield potential, without
increasing inputs for the wheat based double cropping system. It also indicated that the
combination of high grain yield and excellent industrial quality is possible, as exemplified by
Jimai 19 and Yumai 34, leading cultivars in Shandong and Henan, respectively.
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