Publication Details

Published: January 1, 1952

Publisher: Iowa State College Press

Location: Ames, IA

DOI: 10.31274/isudp.1952.35

Chapters

• None. Introduction
• 1. Early Ideas on Inbreeding and Crossbreeding
• 2. Beginnings of the Heterosis Concept
• 3. Development of the Heterosis Concept
• 4. Preferential Segregation in Maize
• 5. Inbreeding and Crossbreeding in Seed Development
• 6. Physiology of Gene Action in Hybrids
• 7. Hybrid Nutritional Requirements
• 8. Origin of Corn Belt Maize and Its Genetic Significance
• 9. Heterosis in Population Genetics
• 10. Fixing Transgressive Vigor in Nicotiana Rustica
• 11. Hybridization in the Evolution of Maize
• 12. Biochemical Models of Heterosis in Neurospora
• 13. Nature and Origin of Heterosis
• 14. Plasmagenes and Chromogenes in Heterosis
• 15. Specificity of Gene Effects
• 16. Genetics and Cytology of Saccharomyces
• 17. Genetic Implications of Mutations in S. Typhimurium
• 18. Dominance and Overdominance
• 19. Gene Recombination and Heterosis
• 20. Gene Interaction in Heterosis
• 21. Inbred Lines for Heterosis Tests?
• 22. Specific and General Combining Ability
• 23. Rotational Crossbreeding and Heterosis
• 24. Gamete Selection for Specific Combining Ability
• 25. Monoploids in Maize
• 26. Early Testing and Recurrent Selection
• 27. Heterosis in a New Population
• 28. Recurrent Selection and Overdominance
• 29. Hybrid Vigor in Drosophila
• 30. Estimation of Average Dominance of Genes
• None. Index

Citation

John W. Gowen et al. 1952. Heterosis: A Record of Researches Directed Toward Explaining and Utilizing the Vigor of Hybrids