Inbreeding depression—the reduced survival and fertility of offspring of related individuals—
occurs in wild animal and plant populations as well as in humans, indicating that genetic …

Although heterosis, or hybrid vigor, is widely exploited in agriculture, a complete description
of its molecular underpinnings has remained elusive despite extensive investigation. It …

Heterosis refers to the phenomenon that progeny of diverse varieties of a species or crosses
between species exhibit greater biomass, speed of development, and fertility than both …

Heterosis describes the superior performance of heterozygous hybrid plants over their
homozygous parental inbred lines. Despite the rediscovery of this phenomenon a century …

In this review, we discuss the recent research on allelic variation in maize and possible
implications of this work toward our understanding of heterosis. Heterosis, or hybrid vigor, is …

The increasing demand for lignocellulosic biomass for the production of biofuels provides
value to vegetative plant tissue and leads to a paradigm shift for optimizing plant architecture …

Heterosis describes the superior performance of hybrid plants compared with their
genetically distinct parents and is a pillar of global food security. Here we review the current …

Abstract Perceived by Charles Darwin in many vegetable plants and rediscovered by
George H Shull and Edward M East in maize, heterosis or hybrid vigour is one of the most …

Typically, F1-hybrids are more vigorous than their homozygous, genetically distinct parents,
a phenomenon known as heterosis. In the present study, the transcriptomes of the reciprocal …

Heterosis is a main contributor to yield increase in many crop species. Different mechanisms
have been proposed for heterosis: dominance, overdominance, epistasis, epigenetics, and …