No evidence for epistasis in hybrid and per se performance of elite European flint maize inbreds from generation means and QTL analyses

Crop Science

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2605-2613

  Mihaljevic, Renata ^a   Utz, H Friedrich ^a   Melchinger, Albrecht E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

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EID: 27644492052     PISSN: 0011183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2135/cropsci2004.0760     Document Type: Article

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