Genetic Gains in Yield and Yield Related Traits under Drought Stress and Favorable Environments in a Maize Population Improved Using Marker Assisted Recurrent Selection

The objective of marker assisted recurrent selection (MARS) is to increase the frequency of favorable marker alleles in a population before inbred line extraction. This approach was used to improve drought tolerance and grain yield (GY) in a biparental cross of two elite drought tolerant lines. The...

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Main Authors: Folusho Bankole, Abebe Menkir, Gbadebo Olaoye, Jose Crossa, Sarah Hearne, Nnanna Unachukwu, Melaku Gedil
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2017.00808/full