Performance of Crosses of Certain Inbred Lines

Performance of inbred lines and line crosses in swine.

Heterosis in crosses of inbred lines of Duroc swine.

B ETWEEN 1938 and 1949 seven different unrelated inbred lines of Duroc swine were developed by the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station in cooperation with the Regional Swine Breeding Laboratory. In sixteen of the twenty-two farrowing seasons from the spring of 1939 through the fall of 1949, both inbred and two-line-cross litters were produced. In some seasons outbred Duroc and three-linecr...

Genetic Distance Based on SSR Markers and Testcross Performance of Maize Inbred Lines

The identification of parental inbred lines to develop superior hybrids is a rather costly and time-consuming step in maize breeding. In some cases, pedigree information has been used to select diverse parental lines. In the case of Iranian maize inbred lines, this information is not fully available. In this study we investigated the genetic distance (GD) based on Simple sequence Repeats (SSR) ...

Variance of the parental genome contribution to inbred lines derived from biparental crosses.

The expectation of the parental genome contribution to inbred lines derived from biparental crosses or backcrosses is well known, but no theoretical results exist for its variance. Our objective was to derive the variance of the parental genome contribution to inbred lines developed by the single-seed descent or double haploid method from biparental crosses or backcrosses. We derived formulas a...

Marker-based prediction of the parental genome contribution to inbred lines derived from biparental crosses.

Molecular markers can be employed to predict the parental genome contribution to inbred lines. The proportion alpha of alleles originating from parent P1 at markers polymorphic between the parental lines P1 and P2 is commonly used as a predictor for the genome contribution of parent P1 to an offspring line. Our objectives were to develop a new marker-based predictor xi for the parental genome c...