Performance of advanced generation from a hybrid Japanese cucumber Comportamento de gerações avançadas de um híbrido de pepino japonês

Inbreeding reduces the vigor in plants as a result of a decrease in the proportion of heterozygous loci. However, the influence of inbreeding is different among the species. The objective of this work was to evaluate the inbreeding depression in a cucumber Japanese population. An F2 population was o...

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Published in:	Scientia Agricola
Main Authors:	Victoria Rossmary Santacruz Oviedo, Amanda Regina Godoy, Antonio Ismael Inácio Cardoso
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade de São Paulo 2008-01-01
Subjects:	Cucumis sativus L. melhoramento heterose breeding heterosis
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162008000500016