THE INHERITANCE OF EAR HEIGHT IN ZEA MAYS
- 1 March 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Genetics and Cytology
- Vol. 3 (1) , 26-33
- https://doi.org/10.1139/g61-008
Abstract
A genetic analysis by the partitioning method indicated that the 2 corn inbred, V3 and B14 differed by 6 factors for ear height, of which, 2 factors controlled number of internodes and 4 factors controlled internode length. Pleiotropism between factors controlling internode number and internode length was not indicated. Dominance was not indicated for number of internodes, but internode length indicated heterosis and the F1 of ear height indicated partial dominance for greater ear height. Some inter-allelic interaction was indicated for all 3 characters. Heritability estimates averaged 65.5, 38.3 and 82.4% for number of internodes, internode length and ear height respectively.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Dominance of Genes Controlling Quantitative Characters in Maize1Agronomy Journal, 1953
- A Method for Estimating Heritability1Agronomy Journal, 1952