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heterosis
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thumb|300px|Time course imaging of two maize [[inbreds and their F1 hybrid (middle) exhibiting heterosis.]]
Research
5,093 papers- Heterosis in crop improvement.The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology · 2024
- Cotton heterosis and hybrid cultivar development.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2023
- Revisiting Plant Heterosis-From Field Scale to Molecules.Genes · 2021
- Molecular dissection of heterosis in cereal roots and their rhizosphere.TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik · 2023
- Heterosis: revisiting the magic.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2007
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Encyclopedic overview
20 sectionsContents
- Definitions
- Genetic and epigenetic bases
- Dominance and overdominance
- Historical retrospective
- Epigenetics
- Specific mechanisms
- Major histocompatibility complex in animals
- Plants
- Corn (maize)
- Rice (''Oryza sativa'')
- Animals
- Hybrid livestock
- Poultry
- Dogs
- Birds
- Humans
- Controversy
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|300px|Time course imaging of two maize [[inbreds and their F1 hybrid (middle) exhibiting heterosis.]]
Heterosis, hybrid vigor, or outbreeding enhancement is the improved or increased function of any biological quality in a hybrid offspring. An offspring is heterotic if its traits are enhanced as a result of mixing the genetic contributions of its parents. The heterotic offspring often has traits that are more than the simple addition of the parents' traits, and can be explained by Mendelian or non-Mendelian inheritance. Typical heterotic/hybrid traits of interest in agriculture are higher yield, quicker maturity, stability, drought tolerance etc.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “heterosis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.