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SUBMITTER: Zhang X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4465181 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zhang Xinzhong X Lv Liangjie L Lv Chao C Guo Baojian B Xu Rugen R
PloS one 20150610 6
Selection of parents based on their combining ability is an effective approach in hybrid breeding. In this study, eight maintainer lines and nine restorer lines were used to obtain 72 crosses for analyzing the general combining ability (GCA) and special combining ability (SCA) for seven agronomic and yield characters including plant height (PH), spike length excluding awns (SL), inter-node length (IL), spikes per plant (SP), thousand kernel weight (TKW), kernel weight per plant (KWP) and dry mat ...[more]