Abstract
Whereas animal breeders largely focus on improvement using additive genetic variance, inbreeding and asexual reproduction allow plant breeders to at least partially exploit non-additive genetic variance as well. We briefly review various approaches used by breeders to exploit dominance and epistatic variance, discuss their constraints and limitations, and examine what (if anything) can be done to improve our ability to further use often untapped genetic variation.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 873-881 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Australian Journal of Agricultural Research |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2005 |
Keywords
- Dominance
- Epistasis
- Epistatic genetic variance
- Inbreeding
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences