Combining Ability of Different Agronomic Traits and Yield Components in Hybrid Barley.

Selection of parents based on their combining ability is an effective approach in hybrid breeding. In this study, eight maintainer lines and nine restorer lines were used to obtain 72 crosses for analyzing the general combining ability (GCA) and special combining ability (SCA) for seven agronomic an...

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Main Authors: Xinzhong Zhang, Liangjie Lv, Chao Lv, Baojian Guo, Rugen Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4465181?pdf=render