Progress toward understanding heterosis in crop plants

Annual Review of Plant Biology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2013, Pages 71-88

  Schnable, Patrick S ^a   Springer, Nathan M ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Genetic diversity; Hybrid vigor; Structural variation

Indexed keywords

CROP; CROSS BREEDING; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HETEROSIS; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW;

CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOMICS; HYBRID VIGOR; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84877658412     PISSN: 15435008     EISSN: 15452123     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-arplant-042110-103827     Document Type: Review

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