In sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench], development of male-sterile versions (A-lines) the seed parents (B-lines) is a tedious and time-consuming process limiting opportunities for improvement new parents. Assessment value potential parent requires testcross hybrid evaluations, but because male fertility these lines, conventional methods are inadequate to generate required testing. Mechanisms...

Peningkatan produktivitas jagung dapat dilakukan melalui perakitan varietas yang memiliki tingkat prolifikasi tinggi. Ketersediaan galur-galur tinggi dan daya gabung baik akan memberikan peluang besar dalam hibrida prolifik dengan hasil Penelitian ini bertujuan memilih pada karakter mengevaluasi dibentuk dari tersebut serta mengetahui aksi gen berperan komponen hasil. Percobaan dua tahap yaitu ...

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) ...

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) ...

The exploitation of heterosis is one of the most outstanding advancements in plant breeding, although its genetic basis is not well understood yet. This research was conducted on the materials arising from the maize single cross B73 x H99 to study heterosis by procedures of classical genetic and quantitative trait loci (QTL) analyses. Materials were the basic generations, the derived 142 recomb...

Complex quantitative traits of plants as measured on collections of genotypes across multiple environments are the outcome of processes that depend in intricate ways on genotype and environment simultaneously. For a better understanding of the genetic architecture of such traits as observed across environments, genotype-by-environment interaction should be modeled with statistical models that u...

Drought and poor soil fertility are among the major abiotic stresses affecting maize productivity in sub-Saharan Africa. Maize breeding efforts at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have focused on incorporating drought stress tolerance and nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) into tropical maize germplasm. The objectives of this study were to estimate the general combining ...

A few linkage maps of tea have been constructed using pseudo-testcross theory based on dominant marker systems. However, dominant markers are not suitable as landmark markers across a wide range of materials. Therefore, we developed co-dominant SSR markers from genomic DNA and ESTs and constructed a reference map using these co-dominant markers as landmarks. A population of 54 F(1) clones deriv...