The relative proportion of additive and non-additive variation for complex traits is important
in evolutionary biology, medicine, and agriculture. We address a long-standing controversy …

Hybrid breeding in autogamous cereals has a long history of attempts with moderate
success. There is a vast amount of literature investigating the potential problems and …

Increasing wheat yield is a key global challenge to producing sufficient food for a growing
human population. Wheat grain yield can be boosted by exploiting heterosis, the superior …

Genomic selection is a promising breeding strategy for rapid improvement of complex traits.
The objective of our study was to investigate the prediction accuracy of genomic breeding …

Recent advances in plant genomics and molecular biology have revolutionized our
understanding of plant genetics, providing new opportunities for more efficient and …

Heterosis refers to the superior performance of hybrids relative to the parents. Utilization of
heterosis has contributed tremendously to the increased productivity in many crops for …

Key message The review outlines past failures, present status and future prospects of hybrid
wheat, and includes information on CMS/CHA/transgenic approaches for male sterility …

Hybrid rice breeding for exploiting hybrid vigor, heterosis, has greatly increased grain yield.
However, the heterosis-related genes associated with rice grain production remain largely …

The main objective in this research was the genetic analysis of heterosis in rapeseed at the
QTL level. A linkage map comprising 235 SSR and 144 AFLP markers covering 2045 cM …

Two recombinant inbred (RI) populations having 194 and 222 lines each, derived,
respectively, from a highly heterotic inter-(IJ) and intrasubspecific (II) hybrid, were …