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Exploring Heterosis in Melon (Cucumis melo L.)

Plants, 2020
Heterosis is the superiority of an F1 hybrid over its parents. Since this phenomenon is still unclear in melon, a half diallel experiment based on eight genetically distant breeding lines was conducted in six environments of Central Italy, assessing ...
Marco Napolitano, Niccolò Terzaroli, S. Kashyap, L. Russi, E. Jones-Evans, E. Albertini   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

IbPIF1 confers stem nematode resistance by regulating secondary metabolites in sweet potato

Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.
Summary The stem nematode (Ditylenchus destructor Thorne) is a pervasive and destructive plant‐parasitic nematode worldwide, inflicting severe agricultural and economic losses in a wide range of crops. Despite its global impact, the molecular mechanisms underlying plant resistance to this pathogen remain poorly understood. Our previous studies in sweet
Nan Nie, Yinghui Yang, Jinxi Huo, Feibing Wang, Ruitao Liu, Sifan Sun, Yuanfeng Hu, Yanqi Chen, Wenxin Wu, Qingchang Liu, Shaozhen He, Huan Zhang, Ning Zhao, Shaopei Gao, Hong Zhai   +14 more
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Leaf growth in early development is key to biomass heterosis in Arabidopsis

Journal of Experimental Botany, 2020
Arabidopsis thaliana hybrids have similar properties to hybrid crops, with greater biomass relative to the parents. We asked whether the greater biomass was due to increased photosynthetic efficiency per unit leaf area or to overall increased leaf area ...
Pei-Chuan Liu, W. Peacock, Li Wang, R. Furbank, A. Larkum, E. Dennis   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring potential strategies for haploid induction based on double fertilization in plants

Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.
Summary Haploid induction (HI), an indispensable procedure in doubled haploid breeding, has attracted increasing attention in crop genetic improvement due to its ability to rapidly fix desirable traits in a homozygous state, thereby shortening the breeding cycle.
Tengyu Li, Chenlei Wang, Jingwen Pan, Javaria Tabusam, Yan Li, Jinbo Yao, Wei Chen, Yazhong Wang, Wei Gao, Junkang Rong, Zeeshan Ahmad, Andreas Houben, Shouhong Zhu, Shuangxia Jin, Yongshan Zhang   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative proteomic analysis reveals that the Heterosis of two maize hybrids is related to enhancement of stress response and photosynthesis respectively

BMC Plant Biology, 2020
Heterosis refers to superior traits exhibiting in a hybrid when compared with both parents. Generally, the hybridization between parents can change the expression pattern of some proteins such as non-additive proteins (NAPs) which might lead to heterosis.
Daoping Wang, Yong-ying Mu, Xiaojia Hu, Bo Ma, Zhibo Wang, Li Zhu, Jiang Xu, Changling Huang, Yinghong Pan   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A natural variation in the promoter of TaGDSL‐7D contributes to grain weight and yield in wheat

Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.
Summary Grain weight (GW) is a critical agronomic trait that greatly impacts wheat yield, yet the underlying genetic factors remain largely unknown. Here, we identify and characterize a candidate gene TaGDSL‐7D controlling GW in wheat through map‐based cloning, which encodes an ER‐located GDSL‐family protein.
Fei He, Dejie Du, Zhaoyan Chen, Liang Ma, Yunjie Liu, Zhaoju Li, Long Song, Zihao Jiang, Yujie Fan, Qixin Sun, Zhongfu Ni   +10 more
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Early establishment of photosynthesis and auxin biosynthesis plays a key role in early biomass heterosis in Brassica napus (Canola) hybrids.

Plant and Cell Physiology, 2020
Heterosis or hybrid vigour has been used widely for more than a decade in Brassica napus (Canola) production. Canola hybrids show heterosis in a variety of traits compared to parents, including increased biomass at early stages of seedling establishment,
Anyu Zhu, Aihua Wang, You Zhang, E. Dennis, W. Peacock, and Ian K Greaves   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Genetic diversity, population structure and linkage disequilibrium in tropical maize (Zea mays L.) germplasm adapted to South Brazil

Plant Breeding, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Genetic diversity studies and molecular characterization offer crucial insights into preserving germplasm and maximizing its utility effectively. Therefore, the present study aimed to verify the genetic diversity, population structure and linkage disequilibrium in a set of maize (Zea mays L.) germplasm adapted to South Brazil composed of 351 ...
Douglas Mariani Zeffa, Filipe Augusto Bengosi Bertagna, Jéssica Delfini, Alessandra Koltun, Renan Santos Uhdre, Carlos Alberto Scapim, Leandro Simões Azeredo Gonçalves   +6 more
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Physiological explanations of heterosis [PDF]

Genetics Selection Evolution, 1982
E Andresen, K Christensen
openaire   +12 more sources