ISSN:
1573-5060
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
Notes:
Abstract in the pedigree of a group of several intervarietal crosses in barley, individual plant progenies from F4 F5 and F6 generations were studied along with three of their parents for comparing the within-family variances (σ2 w) in them using it as a measure of progress towards homozygosity. For plant height the value of σw 2 in F6 was not significantly higher than the one in parents whereas for spike length there was observed a significant excess of within-family variability in F6 over the parents. This excess was attributed to a differential survival of heterozygous progenies under selection despite some selection pressure against the heterozygosity in marked chromosome segments. The adaptive role of heterozygote advantage in the populations of such predominantly self-fertilized species has been briefly discussed.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00031973
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