Heterosis: A record of researches directed toward explaining and utilizing the vigor of hybrids
John W. Gowen, Conway Zirkle, George Harrison Shull, H. K. Hayes, M. M. Rhoades, R. A. Brink, W. Gordon Whaley, William J. Robbins, Edgar Anderson, William L. Brown, Adriano A. Buzzati-Traverso, Harold H. Smith, Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Sterling Emerson, Th. Dobzhansky, Donald F. Jones, M. R. Irwin, Carl C. Lindegren, H. H. Plough, James F. Crow, Leroy Powers, A. J. Mangelsdorf, Gordon E. Dickerson, C. R. Henderson, L. M. Winters, E. L. Pinnell, E. H. Rinke, Sherret S. Chase, G. F. Sprague, E. J. Wellhausen, Fred H. Hull, R. E. Comstock & H. F. Robinson
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Published Published By Pages Chapters Jan. 1, 1952 Iowa State College Press 566 32 -
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Heterosis: A record of researches directed toward explaining and utilizing the vigor of hybrids has the following chapters:
- 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
- Index
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