Abstract: In this chapter the procedures of biometrical genetics (Mather and Jinks 1971, 1977, 1982) will be used to define and analyse heterosis in terms of the actions and interactions of genes of the kinds that are well established in classical Mendelian genetics. Quantitative models, experimental designs and statistical analyses will be described that can accommodate all kinds of gene action and interaction at any number of loci in the presence of any level of linkage disequilibrium and genotype x environment interaction and apportion their contributions to heterosis.
Publication Year: 1983
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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