What have we learned? What have we done? Where are we headed?

The Genetics and Exploitation of Heterosis in Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 483-492

  Hallauer, A R ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding methods; Genetic effects; Heterosis; Heterotic groups; Hybrid prediction; Quantitative traits; Reciprocal recurrent selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243625545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/1999.geneticsandexploitation.c45     Document Type: Chapter

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