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Hybrid mimics and hybrid vigor in Arabidopsis.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 1 Sept 2015
Wang Li, Greaves Ian K, Groszmann Michael, Wu Li Min, Dennis Elizabeth S, Peacock W James
Abstract excerpt
F1 hybrids can outperform their parents in yield and vegetative biomass, features of hybrid vigor that form the basis of the hybrid seed industry. The yield advantage of the F1 is lost in the F2 and subsequent generations. In Arabidopsis, from F2 plants that have a F1-like phenotype, we have by recurrent selection produced pure breeding F5/F6 lines, hybrid mimics, in which the characteristics of the F1 hybrid are...
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