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Dominance and epistasis are the main contributors to heterosis for plant height in rice.
Plant science : an international journal of experimental plant biology - 1 Feb 2014
Shen Guojing, Zhan Wei, Chen Huaxia, Xing Yongzhong
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The genetic basis of heterosis has been debated for over 100 years regarding whether dominance or overdominance plays a more important role and the answer is still unclear. The major limitation to assess the contribution of a single locus has been the genetic background noise due to genome-wide segregation of multiple loci. To dissect the genetic basis of heterosis at a single locus for plant height, we developed...
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