Mechanisms of heterosis in crop plants

Journal of Crop Production

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-111

  Tsaftaris, A S ^a   Kafka, M ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Heterosis; Hybrid vigor; Molecular heterosis; Quantitative trait loci; Restriction fragment length polymorphism; Z. mays

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012564516     PISSN: 1092678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J144v01n01_05     Document Type: Article

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