Developing hybrid maize varieties in Latin America: FONTAGRO project

By Sweta Exclusive to TractorExport Hybrid vigor or heterosis refers to increase in characteristics such as size, fertility, growth rate and yield of a hybrid organism over its parents. In practical breeding hybrid vigor has greatest success in maize. The combining ability of inbred lines is an essential feature of maize breeding programs. When appropriate lines in single, double and other crosses are combined a hybrid is obtained. A project related to maize breeding for “generating and validating maize varieties that are [...]