Commercial strategies for exploitation of heterosis

The Genetics and Exploitation of Heterosis in Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 295-304

  Duvick, D N ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterosis; Hybrid maize; Hybrid seed business; Hybrid tomato; Hybrid wheat; Hybridization; Inbred parents; Pollinating system; Seed yield; Seeding rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101889490     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/1999.geneticsandexploitation.c27     Document Type: Chapter

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