specific combining ability

Potential of maize single-cross hybrids for extraction of inbred lines using the mean components and mixed models with microsatellite marker information

M. Balestre, Von Pinho, R. G., Souza, J. C., and Machado, J. C., Potential of maize single-cross hybrids for extraction of inbred lines using the mean components and mixed models with microsatellite marker information, vol. 7, pp. 1106-1118, 2008.

The present study examined the importance of mean (m+a’ and d) components in the performance of single-cross hybrids for the formation of new populations and determined the contribution of the mixed model (best linear unbiased predictor of random effects, BLUP) method associated with molecular markers for the choice of crosses to obtain interpopulation hybrids. Ten single-cross commercial hybrids of different companies were used for this purpose, producing all possible double-cross hybrids through a complete diallel.

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