Sentences with heterosis
het·er·o·sis
H h - The fundamental genetic and physiological causes of heterosis remain poorly understood in plants after nearly a century of exploitation in crop improvement.
- Traditionally the issue of heterosis has been posed in genetic terms such as dominance and overdominance.
- Genetic background, heterosis, and sex differences can all have profound effects on chiasma and recombination frequencies.
- The fixation of deleterious mutations may be a general explanation for heterosis in crosses between ecotypes, despite alternative overdominance interpretations.