Mid-parent advantage and heterosis in F1 hybrids of wheat from crosses among old and modern varieties

Journal of Agricultural Science

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 287-295

  Morgan, C L ^a  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DISPERSION; DOMINANT GENE; HETEROSIS; HYBRID; PHENOTYPE; WHEAT;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0031801299     PISSN: 00218596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021859698005334     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. AUSTIN, R. B. & BLACKWELL, R. D. (1980). Edge and neighbour effects in cereal yield trials. Journal of Agricultural Science, Cambridge 94, 731-734.
2. BORGHI, B., PERENZIN, M. & NASH, R. J. (1988). Agronomic and qualitative characteristics of ten bread wheat hybrids produced using a chemical hybridizing agent. Euphytica 39, 185-194.
3. FONSECA, S. & PATTERSON, F. L. (1968). Hybrid vigor in a seven-parent diallel cross in common winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Crop Science 8, 85-88.
4. GALE, M. D. & YOUSSEFIAN, S. (1985). Dwarfing genes in wheat. Progress in Plant Breeding 1, 1-35.
5. GYAWALI, K. K., QUALSET, C. O. & YAMAZAKI, W. T. (1968). Estimates of heterosis and combining ability in winter wheat. Crop Science 8, 322-324.
6. 1 hybrid wheats based on Triticum timopheevi cytoplasm. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 53, 219-228.
7. KEYES, G. & SORRELLS, M. E. (1989). Rht1 and Rht2 semidwarf genes effect on hybrid vigor and agronomic traits of wheat. Crop Science 29, 1442-1447.
8. LENTON, J. R., HEDDEN, P. & GALE, M. D. (1987). Gibberellin insensitivity and depletion in wheat -consequences for development. In Hormone Action in Plant Development: A Critical Appraisal (Eds G. V. Hoad, J. R. Lenton, M. B. Jackson & R. K. Atkin), pp. 145-160. London: Butterworths.
9. MOLL, R. H., SALHUANA, W. S. & ROBINSON, H. F. (1962). Heterosis and genetic diversity in variety crosses of maize. Crop Science 2, 197-198.
10. MOLL, R. H., LONNQUIST, J. H., VÉLEZ FORTUNO, J. & JOHNSON, E. C. (1965). The relationship of heterosis and genetic divergence in maize. Genetics 52, 139-144.
11. MORGAN, C. L., AUSTIN, R. B., FORD, M. A., BINGHAM, J., ANGUS, W. J. & CHOWDHURY, S. (1989). An evaluation of F1 hybrid winter wheat genotypes produced using a chemical hybridizing agent. Journal of Agricultural Science, Cambridge 112, 143-149.
12. SMITH, O. S. & SMITH, J. S. C. (1992). Measurement of genetic diversity among maize hybrids; a comparison of isozymic, RFLP, pedigree, and heterosis data. Maydica 37, 53-60.
13. WALTON, P. D. (1971). Heterosis in spring wheat. Crop Science 11, 422-424.
14. WILSON, J. A. & ROSS, W. M. (1962). Male sterility interaction of the Triticum aestivum nucleus and Triticum timopheevi cytoplasm. Wheat Information Service 14, 29-30.
15. WILSON, P. & DRISCOLL, C. J. (1983). Hybrid wheat. In Heterosis: A Reappraisal of Theory and Practice. Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Genetics, Vol. 6 (Ed. R. Frankel), pp. 94-123. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
16. ZHANG, A. M., HUANG, J., WANG, M. L. & HUANG, T. (1985). The relationship between genetic distance of quantitative characters of parents and heterosis in hybrid wheat with Triticum timopheevi cytoplasm. Acta Agriculturae Universitatis Pekinensis 11, 135-142.