Little heterosis for yield and yield components in hybrids of six cucumber inbreds

Euphytica

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 99-108

  Cramer, Christopher S ^a   Wehner, Todd C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Combining ability; Correlation; Cucumis sativus; Cucurbitaceae; Earliness; Fruit shape; Inbreeding depression; Quantitative genetics

Indexed keywords

GENETIC CROSS; HETEROSIS; INBREEDING; PLANT GROWTH;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 0032704129     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1003764621072     Document Type: Article

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