Hybrid weakness in a rice interspecific hybrid is nitrogen-dependent, and accompanied by changes in gene expression at both total transcript level and parental allele partitioning.

BACKGROUND:Hybrid weakness, a phenomenon opposite to heterosis, refers to inferior growth and development in a hybrid relative to its pure-line parents. Little attention has been paid to the phenomenological or mechanistic aspect of hybrid weakness, probably due to its rare occurrence. METHODOLOGY/P...

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Main Authors: Shuai Sun, Ying Wu, Xiuyun Lin, Jie Wang, Jiamiao Yu, Yue Sun, Yiling Miao, Qiuping Li, Karen A Sanguinet, Bao Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5332110?pdf=render