Epistasis and heterosis

The Genetics and Exploitation of Heterosis in Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 59-68

  Goodnight, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Allele; Average effects; Gene interaction; Heterosis; Inbreeding depression; Physiological epistasis; Statistical epistasis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85101890146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/1999.geneticsandexploitation.c6     Document Type: Chapter

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