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Heterosis and hybrid breeding

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In the first years of the twentieth century, the development of maize inbred lines and hybrids started a new agricultural era. Combined with agricultural techniques, hybrids exploiting heterosis increased grain production to new standards. Several other crops also exploit heterosis in different ways, and the genetic basis of this phenomenon is a subject of intense discussions and investigations. This Topical Collection offers valuable information, insights, and analysis regarding theoretical and practical aspects of heterosis and hybrid breeding for several crops, covering topics such as molecular genetic basis, epigenetics, optimized breeding schemes, practical applications, and more.

Editors

  • Augusto Garcia Augusto Garcia , 

    Augusto Garcia

    Augusto Garcia has a PhD in Genetics and Plant Breeding ("Luiz de Queiroz" College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Brazil - ESALQ/USP) and a post-doc in Statistical Genetics (NC State University, USA). He started his career working on sugarcane breeding (1995-1998) and as a professor of Statistics (1998-2002), moving to the Department of Genetics in 2002 (ESALQ/USP). Augusto's research goals include understanding the genetic architecture of quantitative traits through linkage and QTL mapping, association mapping, and genomic selection. His research involves autopolyploid and diploid plant species.

  • Matthias Frisch Matthias Frisch , 

    Matthias Frisch

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  • Yiqun Weng Yiqun Weng , 

    Yiqun Weng

    Yiqun Weng is a Research Geneticist in the USDA-ARS Vegetable Crops Research Unit and Professor in the Horticulture Department, University of Wisconsin Madison. He leads the USDA-ARS Cucumber Improvement Program aiming to understand the genetic basis of traits important for growers and customers and to develop enhanced germplasm using classical and biotechnological approaches. Research interests in his lab include developing cucumber genetic and genomic resources for molecular breeding, use of crop wild relatives, and understanding chromosome evolution and domestication during cucumber crop evolution.

  • Rajeev Varshney Rajeev Varshney , 

    Rajeev Varshney

    Prof. Rajeev Varshney is an agricultural research scientist specializing in genomics and genomics-assisted breeding with 20+ years of service in international agriculture while working in India, Germany, Australia, Mexico and several countries in Africa. He is serving Murdoch University (Australia) as a Director, Centre for Crop & Food Innovation; Director, State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre; and International Chair in Agriculture & Food Security. Rajeev’s research includes developing genomic resources, cataloguing genetic diversity and haplotypes, pre-breeding, trait discovery, genomics-assisted breeding and seed system

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    Mark Sorrells

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  • David Fang David Fang

    David Fang

    David Fang is a Supervisory Research Geneticist and Research Leader of the Cotton Fiber Bioscience Research Unit, USDA-ARS at New Orleans, USA. His group studies cotton fiber biology using genetic, molecular and genomic approaches. His research focuses on mapping important qualitative and quantitative traits of cotton using DNA markers and implementing them in breeding. He uses various mutants to study fiber development. Formerly, he was Director of Molecular Cotton Breeding at Delta and Pine Land Company. Read more

Articles (16 in this collection)

  13. Engineering apomixis in crops

    Authors

    • Alexander Mahlandt
    • Dipesh Kumar Singh
    • Raphael Mercier
    • Content type: Review
    • Open Access
    • Published: 18 May 2023
    • Article: 131