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Extraordinary transgressive phenotypes of hybrid tomato are influenced by epigenetics and small silencing RNAs.
The EMBO journal - 18 Jan 2012
Shivaprasad Padubidri V, Dunn Ruth M, Santos Bruno Acm, Bassett Andrew, Baulcombe David C
Abstract excerpt
Hybrid organisms may fail to develop, be sterile or they may be more vigorous than either of the parents. Examples of hybrid vigour or hybrid necrosis in the F1 are often not inherited stably in subsequent generations if they are associated with overdominance. There can also be transgressive phenotypes that are inherited stably in these later generations, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood....
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