Exploring Heterosis in Melon (<i>Cucumis melo</i> L.)

Heterosis is the superiority of an F<sub>1</sub> hybrid over its parents. Since this phenomenon is still unclear in melon, a half diallel experiment based on eight genetically distant breeding lines was conducted in six environments of Central Italy, assessing commercially important trai...

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Main Authors: Marco Napolitano, Niccolò Terzaroli, Subash Kashyap, Luigi Russi, Elen Jones-Evans, Emidio Albertini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-02-01
Series:Plants
Subjects:
gca
sca
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/2/282