since crosses of lines with suitable genetic distance produce excellent hybrids, the identification of genetic diversity between zea mays l. inbred lines in hybrid maize breeding programs has a high priority. a total of 27 inbred lines plus b73 and mo17 (sc704 parents) were evaluated by 15 inter-simple sequence repeat (issr) primers. inbreds were selected randomly from inbred lines from the agr...

since crosses of lines with suitable genetic distance produce excellent hybrids, the identification of genetic diversity between zea mays l. inbred lines in hybrid maize breeding programs has a high priority. a total of 27 inbred lines plus b73 and mo17 (sc704 parents) were evaluated by 15 inter-simple sequence repeat (issr) primers. inbreds were selected randomly from inbred lines from the agr...

Today the concept of heterotic groups and patterns is fundamental to hybrid breeding theory and practice. Our objectives were to (i) review various hypotheses on the causes of heterosis in maize and on the experimental evidence supporting or refuting them, (ii) examine advantages and disadvantages of the concept of heterotic groups and patterns, (iii) describe the status of heterotic patterns i...

We give a complete classification of ZN orbifold compactification of the heterotic SO(32) string theory and show its potential for realistic model building. The appearance of spinor representations of SO(2n) groups is analyzed in detail. We conclude that the heterotic SO(32) string constitutes an interesting part of the string landscape both in view of model constructions and the question of he...

Northern corn leaf blight (NCLB), a severe fungal disease causing yield losses worldwide, is most effectively controlled by resistant varieties. Genomic prediction could greatly aid resistance breeding efforts. However, the development of accurate prediction models requires large training sets of genotyped and phenotyped individuals. Maize hybrid breeding is based on distinct heterotic groups t...

We use local mirror symmetry in type IIA string compactifications on Calabi– Yau n + 1 folds Xn+1 to construct vector bundles on (possibly singular) elliptically fibered Calabi–Yau n-folds Zn. The interpretation of these data as valid classical solutions of the heterotic string compactified on Zn proves Ftheory/heterotic duality at the classical level. Toric geometry is used to establish a syst...

We study, as hypersurfaces in toric varieties, elliptic Calabi–Yau fourfolds for F-theory compactifications dual to E8 × E8 heterotic strings compactified to four dimensions on elliptic Calabi–Yau threefolds with some choice of vector bundle. We describe how to read off the vector bundle data for the heterotic compactification from the toric data of the fourfold. This map allows us to construct...