to study inheritance of resistance to septoria tritici blotch in wheat, the generation mean analysis method was used. so six generations (p1, p2, f1, f2, bc1 and bc2) were planted under completely randomized design with three replications in greenhouse. seedlings were inoculated at the second-leaf stage with an isolate of septoria tritici and necrosis and picnidia density and area under disease...

Chromosomal polymorphism can be maintained by means of genic dominance, genic overdominance, recombination effects and karyotype selection. Experiments were carried out which allow us to distinguish among these factors as they effect egg hatch and larva-to-adult survival in D. subobscura. A strong karotype selection was observed. A small but highly significant recombination effect was also obse...

We show how the phenomena of genetic dominance, overdominance, additivity, and epistasis are generic features of simple diploid gene regulatory networks. These regulatory network models are together sufficiently complex to catch most of the suggested molecular mechanisms responsible for generating dominant mutations. These include reduced gene dosage, expression or protein activity (haploinsuff...

HE dominant favorable gene hypothesis, first proposed by BRUCE (1910), T attributes heterosis to accumulated effects of loci at which the more favorable allele contributed by one parent is manifest rather than the unfavorable allele contributed by the other parent. The concepts of linkage (JONES 191 7) and large number of loci (COLLINS 1921; SINGLETON 1941) make the hypothesis compatible with t...

The relative importance of different modes of gene expression of viability genes contributing to inbreeding depression was investigated in the wild plant, Mimulus guttatus. Viability genes were identified by self-fertilizing 31 outbred plants, each heterozygous for three to nine unlinked allozyme markers, and analyzing segregation ratios of selfed progeny at maturity for deviations from 1:2:1 r...

Determination of genetic basis of heterosis may promote hybrid production in Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). This study was designed to explore the genetic mechanism of heterosis for yield and yield components in F2: 3 and F2: 4 populations derived from a hybrid 'Xinza No. 1'. Replicated yield field trials of the progenies were conducted in 2008 and 2009. Phenotypic data analyses indicat...

Heterosis is the phenomenon whereby the progeny of particular inbred lines have enhanced agronomic performance relative to both parents. Although several hypotheses have been proposed to explain this fundamental biological phenomenon, the responsible molecular mechanisms have not been determined. The maize inbred lines B73 and Mo17 produce a heterotic F1 hybrid. Global patterns of gene expressi...