Advanced button mushroom cultivars that are less sensitive to mechanical bruising are required by the mushroom industry, where automated harvesting still cannot be used for the fresh mushroom market. The genetic variation in bruising sensitivity (BS) of Agaricus bisporus was studied through an incomplete set of diallel crosses to get insight in the heritability of BS and the combining ability o...

Combining ability along with heterosis was elucidated in the 21 F1 hybrid population of rice derived from a 7 × diallel mating design. Furthermore, to formulate strategy for marker-based prediction heterosis, molecular genetic diversity (GD) then surveyed among seven parental lines RAPD markers. Analysis combining revealed significant GCA and SCA variances ratio between aforesaid parameter more...

Diallel analysis assumes that the genetic interactions contributing to trait variation can be adequately captured by GCA and SCA effects. However, in reality, more complex, involving higher-order epistatic interactions, pleiotropy, other factors are not accounted for traditional diallel analysis, this purpose, studies were conducted study combinatorial ability of wheat varieties widely planted ...

An intriguing feature of early zygote development in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is the active elimination of chloroplast DNA from the mating-type minus parent due presumably to the action of a zygote-specific nuclease. Meiotic progeny thus inherit chloroplast DNA almost exclusively from the mating-type plus parent. The plus-linked nuclear mutation mat3 prevents this selective destruction of minu...