Heterosis Is Prevalent for Multiple Traits in Diverse Maize Germplasm

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Flint Garcia, Sherry A ^a   Buckler, Edward S ^b   Tiffin, Peter ^c   Ersoz, Elhan ^b   Springer, Nathan M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROSIS; HYBRIDIZATION; MAIZE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CROSSES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOTYPE; HYBRID VIGOR; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77949326869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007433     Document Type: Article

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