Agriculture, Life Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine
Heterosis: A Record of Researches Directed Toward Explaining and Utilizing the Vigor of Hybrids
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