Plant Breeding Methods (CS, HS 541)

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Lecture Outline 11 – INBREEDING DEPRESSION AND HETEROSIS

1. Overdominance Hypothesis
2. Development of Overdominance Hypothesis
3. Dominance vs. Overdominance
4. Summary – Causes of Heterosis
5. Epistasis
6. Mock Heterosis
7. Laboratory on NC Design I

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Exercise 3

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