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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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
Series:Scientia Agricola
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-90162008000500016