COMBINING ABILITY IN MAIZE LINES USING A DIALLEL CROSS

The objective was to select maize (Zea mays L.) lines, based on the effects of general combining ability (GCA), specific combining ability (SCA) and heterosis, for the formation of single crosses. During the spring-summer 2008 cycle, 120 single crosses with the combination of 16 lines of white grain...

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Main Authors: Pablo Andrés-Meza, Catalino Jorge López-Collado, Mauro Sierra-Macías, Gustavo López-Romero, Otto Raúl Leyva-Ovalle, Artemio Palafox-Caballero, Flavio Antonio Rodríguez-Montalvo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán 2011-11-01
Series:Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems
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Online Access:http://www.revista.ccba.uady.mx/ojs/index.php/TSA/article/view/1335