Genetic Variance Estimates for Maize Yield, Grain Moisture, and Stalk Lodging for Doubled-Haploid and Conventional Selfed-Line Hybrids
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Syngenta Seeds Statistician, 2114 State Ave, Ames, IA 50014, USA
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Syngenta Seeds, Slater, IA 50244, USA
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Plants 2020, 9(2), 138; https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9020138
Received: 23 December 2019
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Revised: 16 January 2020
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Accepted: 16 January 2020
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Published: 22 January 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Doubled Haploid Technology in Plant Breeding)
An experiment was conducted to compare estimated genetic variance for maize doubled haploid (DH) with conventional twice-selfed (S2)-line hybrids. Starting with a 4-parent population, at least 160 lines were derived using both of these methods and crossed with two inbred testers. For both inbred testers, maize hybrid grain yield and stalk lodging had higher estimated genetic variances for DH than for S2. For one of the testers, estimated grain moisture genetic variance was higher for DH, but not for the other. The DH hybrid yield distributions on both testers were flatter and had more entries in tails compared with S2 distributions. With complete homozygosity of DH lines and the subsequent increased genetic variance among lines, the expected response to yield selection is higher for DH than for S2 line hybrids.
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Keywords:
doubled haploid; genetic variance; maize yield; selection response
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Mowers, R.P.; Foster, D.J. Genetic Variance Estimates for Maize Yield, Grain Moisture, and Stalk Lodging for Doubled-Haploid and Conventional Selfed-Line Hybrids. Plants 2020, 9, 138. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9020138
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Mowers RP, Foster DJ. Genetic Variance Estimates for Maize Yield, Grain Moisture, and Stalk Lodging for Doubled-Haploid and Conventional Selfed-Line Hybrids. Plants. 2020; 9(2):138. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9020138
Chicago/Turabian StyleMowers, Ronald P., and David J. Foster. 2020. "Genetic Variance Estimates for Maize Yield, Grain Moisture, and Stalk Lodging for Doubled-Haploid and Conventional Selfed-Line Hybrids" Plants 9, no. 2: 138. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9020138
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