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The Genomic Impacts of Drift and Selection for Hybrid Performance in Maize.
Genetics - 1 Nov 2015
Gerke Justin P, Edwards Jode W, Guill Katherine E, Ross-Ibarra Jeffrey, McMullen Michael D
Abstract excerpt
Although maize is naturally an outcrossing organism, modern breeding utilizes highly inbred lines in controlled crosses to produce hybrids. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's reciprocal recurrent selection experiment between the Iowa Stiff Stalk Synthetic (BSSS) and the Iowa Corn Borer Synthetic No. 1 (BSCB1) populations represents one of the longest running experiments to understand the response to selection...
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